Mailbag: The Ideal Rules Of Ultimate, Space Heater, Top Ultimate Cities

What rules do you think need to be implemented?

September 19, 2018 by Charlie Eisenhood in Opinion with 0 comments

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Q: Hey Chuck, it’s ya boi Matt. Could you actually and explicitly say what your ideal set of rules would be?

• Field size
• Stall count
• Subs on timeouts
• Timed games (probably not?)
• Observers do the count?
• Yardage penalties for stuff?
• More TMFs?
• Foul counts leading to fouling out?

– Matt B.

A: Hoo, boy. This is a tough one. In general, I would categorize my thoughts on this into different bins: rules that should absolutely exist, rules that should probably exist but might need tweaking, and rules that should be experimented with. I wrote an article a couple years ago that mostly captures my current thoughts but doesn’t dig into those categories. So let’s get detailed.