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[QUOTE="Millhouse, post: 1085423, member: 78"]
Penalty kicks are too easy. It will always result in crappy teams preferring to hunker down and take their chances in a shootout (in games with shootouts).  It will always result in dives. Calling for better enforcement of diving is easier said than done during the game.  I think long suspensions after the fact could make a big difference but to fix it during the game, you have to reduce the incentive to dive.

Refs know how easy it is to score on a PK so they are reluctant to call less egregious fouls - knowing that the PK is almost a sure goal, they will only call it if they think the foul has the same odds of preventing a goal.

make it a free kick, let teams place it wherever they want outside the box, limit the guys in a wall, whatever.  everyone prefers a good free kick over a pk.

Refs will call more fouls if they don't feel like they're deciding that the other team would've scored.  We'll have fewer sure thing PKs but i think scoring in regular play would go up.
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