When I played pick-up basketball games (yes it has been a few years), we would call fouls when we fouled someone.  Our only arguements were literally polite discussions whether the other player would accept the foul. Often the other player would say that the "foul" did'nt affect the shot and don't worry about it.  It seemed to work so much better than the person being fouled calling the foul.  Of couse you have to have players that are, or can during the game, be "givers" rather than "takers". 

I went to a game at Fenway with a friend when we were both teenagers. We both had our wallets out when we bought gas, or food, or any other expence.  To this day I do not know who payed the most, but I bet we were close to even.  We were both "givers" and I fondly remember this trip. 

I remember my favorite definition of manners -  " what makes the other person comfortable".  That is a lot harder than it sounds.  We have to consider someone else first, rather than ourselves first and only.  This is a great system if everybody are givers. 

When I was at college, three of us went together on food.  We would each pay a third for the week"s food.  We two givers went  home each weekend while the taker stayed the weekend (eating our food).  Late in the semester he went home sick in the middle of the week.  We never did get his share for that week. 

I guess we each make our own decisions about which type of person we are, and we each rationalize that we are right., but I think givers get along much better and can sleep better at night than the takers that are always worried that they won't get the lion's share.        

I finally took time to do it!  The rules - 7 points possible per game; 1 per quarter for most points; -1 if outscored in a quarter; 3 for win in regulation; -3 for loss in regulation; 0 points total for overtime games.  Also no team could get or lose more points than they won or loss by.  Add up points for all games played.  For this year I took the top 34 teams (plus any other team in other polls top 25) and then found the teams they had played and added their point totals.  Fot the final rating scores I multiplied the team's score by ten, added wins, subtracted losses, and added the points from each team they had played.  If they played a second division team, I only included games the second divisioin team played against first division teams.  I also subtracted the number of games played against first division teams from ten and subtracted this number.This system has holes like every system, but I believe it is more indicative of how dominant a team has been, and is not so dependant upon one or two plays.  Overtime should not even be called football...  1) LSU (672)  2) Missouri (589)  3) Virginia Tech (579)  4) Ohio State (568)  5) Florida (554)  6) Oklahoma (539)  7) West Virginia (499)  8) BYU (467)  9) Kansas (446)  10) South Florida (444)  11) Georgia (430)  12) Oregon (418)  13) Boston College (407)  14) Clemson (403)  15) Arizona State (402)  16) USC (398)  17) Cincinnati (384)  18) Boise State (381)  19) Hawaii (365)  20) Conneticut (363)  21) Illinois (362)  22) UCF (329)  23) Auburn (327)  24) Tennessee (326)  25) Michigan State (302).  The teams that played the hardest scheldule according to my rating system were Florida, followed by Missouri and Tennessee.