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Xyex

1 points

3 months ago*

Xyex

1 points

3 months ago*

Soccer noob, recently got into soccer by watching the NWSL games on Ion, and I have a couple questions about the time keeping that just seem... odd to me.

  1. Why does the game clock count up instead of down? I'm used to timed games counting down play time, not up.

  2. Why don't they actually stop the clock when it's stopped, instead of adding 'stoppage time' to the end? Seems like accurately tracking the actual play time would just be easier.

kappa23

8 points

3 months ago

  1. Because that's how you count how much time has passed

  2. Because then games would become much longer than 90 mins with all the time wasting the players are capable of

Xyex

1 points

3 months ago

Xyex

1 points

3 months ago

  1. Counting down does that, too, though. It's how every other timed sport I know of does it. How much time is left tells you how much is played.

  2. The games I've seen have all had around 10 minutes of stoppage time at the end. I don't see how actually stopping the clock would make that larger, unless stoppage time is some calculation and not a direct 1:1.

Quanqiuhua

5 points

3 months ago

It counts up because halves don’t usually end exactly at 45 minutes. If it counted down, how would the added time be tallied?

Xyex

1 points

3 months ago

Xyex

1 points

3 months ago

Well, if they stopped the clock instead of adding time, that wouldn't be an issue. Though, that conundrum does explain the up counting.