Poll of the Day > This is actually interesting: how major league soccer resolved ties until 2000

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Ive never got the anti-tie fascination, imo if two teams cant figure out a winner in regulation, i am not a fan of altering the rules arbitrarily to force a result. There is nothing wrong with a tie, imo. I kinda like how baseball does it: same exact game just goes on until one team leads after a full inning. Exceptions are playoffs like the world cup past the group stages because you need a winner, and i am not a fan of penalty kicks but I agree you cant really force players to run their ass off for much more than 120 minutes.

So, in the early days of the MLS when it first formed, they spiced up penalty kicks by making them more like a hockey PK shootout

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you know what...when I first saw this video my first reaction was to laugh hysterically because it looks so comical. BUT after i watched all of it, I didnt hate it.

It gives the goalie an actual chance at making a save, as you see here. in traditional penalty kicks the goalkeeper is either hoping the dude misses or he randomly(in most cases) dives to the right side. They cannot stop PKs using actual skill(sportscience did some tests and in order to actually see where the kick is going and dive correctly takes inhuman reflexes), unless, say, the penalty taker makes the side he will shoot on obvious during run up or something.

but yeah...i dont know. this is comical but I actually like it, imo.

"This is actually interesting"

lol