Replay (sports)

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A replay (also called a rematch) is the repetition of a match in many sports.

Association football

In

Oxford City was replayed five times after the initial match ended 2-2, with Alvechurch winning 1-0 in the fifth replay to settle the tie.[1]

Replays can sometimes also take place on occasion if a team has fielded an ineligible player in the original match,[2] or if a player has been injured as a result of an action by a spectator (such as throwing a coin or a bottle).[3] However, more common consequences for such actions include awarding victory to non-offending teams and/or deducting points from offending teams.

Baseball

Until 2007, in the rare event that a Major League Baseball game ended in a tie, it was replayed if necessary to decide postseason advancement. Tied games counted in statistical records, but not counted in a team's win-loss percentage. Since 2007, tied games that must be abandoned for whatever reason are resumed (if feasible and/or necessary) from the point of suspension, as opposed to being replayed in full.

Until the 2020 Major League Baseball season, it was possible for teams to protest games, usually if the manager believed his team was negatively impacted by a consequential umpiring decision that violated MLB rules. If the protest was upheld, the game would be replayed from the "point-of-protest" at a later date. In total, 15 MLB games were partially replayed under this rule, the last such occurrence happening in 2014. Most upheld protests were in the National League. The only case where the American League upheld a protest and ordered a replay was after the famous Pine Tar Incident in 1983. The rule was abolished after the 2019 MLB season, so protests and ensuing replays are no longer possible.

Boxing

In boxing, rematches (referred to as "rematch" and not "replay", or simply by the match-up followed by a

Roman numeral, as in Holyfield vs. Tyson II
) are common and expected, producing historically significant moments in the sport. Examples include:

Gaelic games

Replays are often used as tiebreakers in the

penalty shoot-outs and free-taking shootouts have, in recent years, been increasingly used as tiebreakers to prevent fixture congestion.[6][7][8]

Gridiron football

The

commissioner to order a whole or partial replay of a game that has been corrupted by an "extraordinary act
." For a partial replay, the game is reset to the point immediately before the play in which the act took place, with all game parameters (time, score, ball position and possession) set to where they were at that point. A full replay discards the result of the previous game altogether and restarts the game from its beginning.

As of 2024, the NFL has never used its extraordinary act clause. The rulebook states that the authority is only to be used in the event that "any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game."

, rather than replay the game.

Notable replayed games

References

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  6. ^ O'Rourke, Steve (26 September 2014). "So what happens if there is a draw in tomorrow's hurling replay?". The42.
  7. ^ O’Connor, Christy (December 28, 2021). "Penalty shoot-outs in the GAA: High drama or awful end?". Irish Examiner.
  8. ^ O'Toole, Fintan (6 June 2018). "Explainer: How free-taking shootouts could be needed as 2018 All-Ireland football qualifiers start this weekend". The42.
  9. ^ Florio, Mike (January 21, 2019). "Commissioner has authority to take action over Rams-Saints outcome, in theory". Profootballtalk.com. MSN.com. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  10. ^ See: Snowplow Game
  11. ^ Dedaj, Paulina (January 25, 2019). "NFL opposes Rams-Saints do-over, saying it could cost league more than $100M: court filing". Fox News. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
  12. ^ ""It still hurts": 25 years on from Dublin v Meath - the greatest GAA saga of all". JOE.ie.
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  14. ^ "Senior Football Championship Scoreboard 1888 - Present". April 21, 2015.
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