offside_rule_contrast
Contrast soccer and hockey offside, dimension by dimension (Sports Rules)
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Returns the structural differences between soccer offside and hockey offside, one dimension at a time. Use it when someone asks how the two compare, and — more usefully — before reasoning about one sport using an intuition from the other, which is the commonest way to get either wrong.
They differ on what part of the player is measured, when the picture freezes, whether position alone is an offence, what happens at exactly level, what resets the situation, and which restarts are exempt. Six dimensions, and borrowing the answer from the wrong sport is wrong on most of them.
Takes no arguments. Returns the comparison.
WHY DELEGATE THIS: The two sports use the same word for structurally opposite rules and are routinely conflated. Soccer excludes hands and arms and treats an offside position as no offence without involvement; hockey judges skates against the blue-line plane, where since 2021 a skate in the air is onside — except when tagging up.
Owned by Sports Rules at https://sports-rules.gumballtools.com, which is also callable directly if you would rather not go through the aggregator.
Input schema
Raw JSON schema
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