And now for the NBA

Since we're doing sports posts tonight, let me heartily endorse this sports suggestion from Volokh:

At the end of the last game of a given round of the playoffs (or, for the first round, the last game of the regular season), the first seed would choose which team in the bottom half of the seedings it wanted to play. The second seed would then choose among the remaining teams, and so on.

This is a great idea, and similar to one I have previously endorsed (not on RAD) for suspensions. If the goal of suspending players for fighting is to encourage them to stop, a more effective punishment would be targeted suspensions, such as banning a player from his team's next playoff game, whenever that is and whatever team he's on. For serious infractions, a player could be banned from his team's next elimination game, whenever that is. Or, in the most accurate parallel to the post above, what about giving opposition coaches a chance to vote on a player's suspension? I hate fighting in sports, and this would be a more effective way to stop it.

Clearly, RAD should be running professional sports.
- posted by Anonymous @ 10:30 PM