Sports & GM4 min read
How the Offside Rule Works
Offside position versus offside offence, the moment the ball is played, and the exceptions — the soccer rule that confuses most people, explained from Law 11.
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Articles 265–288 of 298, newest first. The introduction to this reading list, its topic hubs and the guides other articles cite most are on the first page.
Sports & GM articles 265–288
- Sports & GM3 min read
How to Choose a Sports Career Sim
A decision guide across six sports career simulators: which sport suits which player, how session length differs, and who each one is wrong for.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Injuries in Sports Career Games, and How to Manage Them
Why career modes include injuries, what they actually model, and the decisions that reduce their cost — availability as a skill rather than as luck.
- Sports & GM6 min read
MMA Weight Classes Explained: The Full List and What the Bands Really Mean
The complete unified-rules weight class table with pound limits, why the bands are uneven, and how catch weight and weight misses are handled.
- Sports & GM3 min read
OPS and Slugging Percentage Explained
How slugging percentage and OPS are calculated, why adding two rates with different denominators is a compromise, and what OPS is genuinely good for.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Plus/Minus and the Rest of Hockey's Statistics
What plus/minus actually counts, why deployment distorts it, and which hockey statistics tell you more about a player than about the team around them.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Power Play and Penalty Kill Explained
What happens when a hockey team is short-handed: minor and major penalties, how a power play ends, and why special teams decide so many games.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Quarterback Archetypes Explained
Pocket passer, scrambler, field general, dual-threat: what each archetype actually trades away, and how the choice changes the decisions a game offers you.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Reading a Defense: The Basics for Sim Players
Safety count, leverage and pre-snap movement — the three cues that tell you most about what a defence intends, explained for simulation and career-mode players.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Rebuild or Retool? Deciding Which One You Are Doing
The difference between tearing a roster down and reshaping it, the honest tests for which your team needs, and why the worst outcome is doing neither.
- Sports & GM6 min read
Salary Cap Basics: How Budget Rules Change a GM Game
What a salary cap is, how hard and soft caps differ, and why a budget turns drafting from a ranking exercise into an allocation problem you can get wrong.
- Sports & GM6 min read
Snake Draft vs Auction Draft: What Actually Changes
Snake drafts allocate players by pick order; auctions allocate them by budget. What each format rewards, the arithmetic behind both, and how to pick one.
- Sports & GM5 min read
Football Career Soccer XI Sim: Earning a Place in the Starting XI
How position, Coach Trust, training and transfer decisions shape a career in Football Career Soccer XI Sim, and which choices actually compound over seasons.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Soccer Positions Explained: What Each Player Is Actually For
What each soccer position is responsible for, how modern roles differ from the traditional names, and how to choose one in a career game.
- Sports & GM6 min read
Sports GM Games Without Internet: What "Offline" Actually Means
Offline is four different things in a mobile game. Here is what each one means, why draft-and-sim games suit a flight, and how to test any app in five minutes.
- Sports & GM4 min read
How Football Transfers and Contracts Work
Transfer fees, contract length, free agency and release clauses — what each mechanism does, and how to evaluate an offer in a career or management game.
- Sports & GM4 min read
Two-Way Players in Baseball, Explained
What a two-way player is, why the role almost disappeared, what it costs a development budget, and how a two-way career behaves inside a baseball simulation.
- Sports & GM6 min read
Understanding Probability in Sports Simulations
Why a better roster still loses, how season length compounds small edges, and how many runs you actually need before a simulated result means anything.
- Sports & GM4 min read
What Is ERA in Baseball, and What Does It Miss?
How earned run average is calculated, what counts as an earned run, why ERA flatters some pitchers, and how to read it in a simulated season.
- Sports & GM4 min read
What Is Icing in Hockey?
Icing explained: the red-line rule, touch versus automatic variants, the exceptions, and why the consequence matters more than the whistle.
- Sports & GM3 min read
What Is WHIP in Baseball, and Why Does It Matter?
Walks and hits per inning pitched: how WHIP is calculated, what it captures that ERA misses, and what it deliberately ignores.
- Sports & GM7 min read
What Makes a Good Draft Board
A draft board is a decision tool, not a ranked list. How to build one from tiers, cliffs and roster structure, and how to run it without abandoning it.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Baseball Stats Explained for Beginners
ERA, WHIP, OBP, slugging, fielding percentage and WAR, each with the formula and a worked example, plus what every one of them fails to tell you.
- Sports & GM7 min read
Basketball Positions Explained: What the Five Numbers Mean
What a point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and centre each do, why the rulebook never mentions any of them, and what position means today.