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Old 03-05-2021, 06:55 PM   #47
Carman Bulldog
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Pro Football Talk explains it better than CBS does...

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It works like this: One team picks the spot of the ball to start overtime, and the other team chooses whether to play offense or defense.

If the one team picks, for example, the offense’s own 20 yard line, the opponent would then choose whether to play offense from their own 20 or to play defense, with the other team having the ball on its own 20. This would minimize greatly the impact of the coin toss; under this proposal, the coin toss would be used only to give the team that wins the toss the right to pick the spot of the ball (along with the end zone to be defended) or to choose offense or defense.

The article also says the break even point is believed to be around the 13-yard-line, so not far from what I speculated on with the 15.
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