NBA Anti-Flopping Initiative: Working or Not?

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This is the first season of the new NBA anti-flopping rules. Three-quarters of the way into the season does it seem to you to have made any difference in the amount of flopping so far?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Yes - a minor decrease, but noticeable	4
No - no change that I can see	3
Yes - a definite decrease in flopping	0
No - it is worse than ever	0

― Aimless, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:46 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgflip.com/raa1.gif

― am0n, Thursday, 27 February 2014 18:16 (twelve years ago)

Seems about the same as usual. Hard to say until the playoffs, really. That's when the grass gets cut and the snakes show.

― Spottie, Thursday, 27 February 2014 18:17 (twelve years ago)

The number of warnings issued has been what, about 3 so far?

― Aimless, Thursday, 27 February 2014 18:20 (twelve years ago)

5 people have reached the $5k so far: http://www.spotrac.com/fines-tracker/nba/ (lol at the graph, Knicks really running away w/ Most Fined this year)

Not sure if there's measurably less flopping but it sure seems like there is, idk. JVG seems to be bitching about it less, so something must be going right.

― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Thursday, 27 February 2014 18:40 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 3 March 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

feel like two years ago was the worst flopping season and its declined since due to league actions

― lag∞n, Monday, 3 March 2014 04:52 (twelve years ago)

my impression is that the flopping has declined. either that, or the players have gotten better at selling them as offensive fouls. but it's true, we'll see how bad it gets during playoffs

― Nhex, Monday, 3 March 2014 04:59 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 00:01 (twelve years ago)

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/2096957/842934308_medium.gif

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 20:57 (twelve years ago)

someone needs to to the sniper treatment to that Beverly one
http://donttrysohard.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/bosh-sniper-flop.gif?w=510

― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 22:49 (twelve years ago)

http://dailythunder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/russflop.gif

― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Thursday, 20 March 2014 07:04 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://nba.si.com/2014/04/10/nba-flops-dives-dj-augustin-iman-shumpert-lance-stephenson/3/

― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Thursday, 10 April 2014 23:08 (twelve years ago)

six months pass...

https://vine.co/v/OOdTqixjVlh

― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 05:45 (twelve years ago)

looool

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 09:28 (twelve years ago)

https://vine.co/v/OO0tqxJvtiI

― 龜, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 12:10 (twelve years ago)

― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 14:53 (twelve years ago)

Would a 10 cent fine stop you doing it if you were that type?

― Raccoon Tanuki, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 14:59 (twelve years ago)

FOH raccoon shittalki, this ain't a soccer board

― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 19:15 (twelve years ago)

*excuse me premier league/champions league/etc. etc. etc., no offense to folks down with those things, just RT

― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 19:22 (twelve years ago)

that three man flop is intense

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 19:43 (twelve years ago)

It's like a bomb went off.

― Big Orange Machine (Leee), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 19:49 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

Seems to me that any effect this initiative had has now worn off. Subtle floppers continue to practice their art unimpeded. You don't see quite so many outrageously humorous pratfalls as before, I guess, so maybe it has curbed the urge to flop among the clumsy and ungifted.

― Aimless, Saturday, 2 May 2015 19:12 (eleven years ago)

i think it has. feel like there's been a few less egregiously comical flops (just a few)

― Nhex, Saturday, 2 May 2015 23:23 (eleven years ago)

suspect the nba never had a problem w the subtle flops

― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 May 2015 05:09 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

fwiw, the plague of utterly ridiculous flops, the sort that were widely shared on twitter for people to jeer at, feels like it has subsided into a mere whisper of what it was in 2013-14. otoh, the subtle flop (aka "selling the foul", when the foul is as much theoretical as real) has continued to flourish and is still a feature at least once in any game that is hotly contested.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 8 February 2024 04:21 (two years ago)

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