Most important position in team sports

[dead0man]

A good argument could be made for all of them, but its probably one of the goalies and I'm leaning towards the hockey goalie mainly because there are fewer people on the field of play (and partly because I favor hockey over soccer).

You can pick two, but you don't have to.

[minionofmidas]

Cricket, of course, bans teams from relying on just a single bowler.

[Napoleon]

I agree with Goalkeeper, probably Hockey more than soccer but not by much.

[They not like us]

Pitcher and Quarterback.

[Lief 🗽]

QB/Pitcher/Bowler. Game doesn't function otherwise. Hockey and soccer still work without goalkeepers, they'd just be really, really bad.

[Hatman 🍁]

Skip (curling)

[Politico]

QB/Pitcher/Bowler. Game doesn't function otherwise. Hockey and soccer still work without goalkeepers, they'd just be really, really bad.

Good point.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wicketkeeper, probably.

[Хahar 🤔]

Quarterback, clearly. Many bowlers don't even exclusively bowl.

[Sbane]

Cricket, of course, bans teams from relying on just a single bowler.

Yes, but having a good bowler can make all the difference. Someone like Dale Steyn for example, who is probably one of my favorite players as of this moment.

That being said a pitcher is more important and so is a quarterback, since you only get one of those.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Any kind of Goalie

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Pitcher and Quarterback.

Actually, catchers are conventionally considered more responsible for the team's tactics on the field than pitchers are, oddly enough.

Skip (curling)

This is the correct answer, as far as sports with which I'm at least somewhat familiar go.

[Хahar 🤔]

Pitcher and Quarterback.

Actually, catchers are conventionally considered more responsible for the team's tactics on the field than pitchers are, oddly enough.

The catcher is certainly important, but assigning the position that much importance is generally a Japanese thing.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Pitcher and Quarterback.

Actually, catchers are conventionally considered more responsible for the team's tactics on the field than pitchers are, oddly enough.

The catcher is certainly important, but assigning the position that much importance is generally a Japanese thing.

Really? I could swear the Red Sox, Yankees, and Mets all have a long history of doing it (then again, most teams aren't in the Northeast any more).

[minionofmidas]

Cricket, of course, bans teams from relying on just a single bowler.

Yes, but having a good bowler can make all the difference. Someone like Dale Steyn for example, who is probably one of my favorite players as of this moment.

My post is open to the interpretation that the rules are what they are precisely because otherwise, the bowler would be so important as to render the identity of all the other players entirely moot.

Having a single uber-important position is a sign of crapitudinal suck in a team sport, obviously.

[Јas]

Of those listed, QB seems about right.

Write-ins:

• driver (bobsleigh)
• driver (rallying/F1)
• horse (horse-racing/equestrianism)

[dead0man]

Of those listed, QB seems about right.

Write-ins:

• driver (bobsleigh)
• driver (rallying/F1)
• horse (horse-racing/equestrianism)

team sport....I suppose one could make an argument that many kinds of auto racing are team sports, but I'd disagree.

[Јas]

Of those listed, QB seems about right.

Write-ins:

• driver (bobsleigh)
• driver (rallying/F1)
• horse (horse-racing/equestrianism)

team sport....I suppose one could make an argument that many kinds of auto racing are team sports, but I'd disagree.

I'll agree that motorsport is in a grey area - but bobsledding is pretty clearly a team sport (as well as an individual one), and the pilot is the critical position.

[RI]

Pitcher and Quarterback.

Actually, catchers are conventionally considered more responsible for the team's tactics on the field than pitchers are, oddly enough.

No! Death to CERA!

[Associate Justice PiT]

QB/Pitcher/Bowler. Game doesn't function otherwise. Hockey and soccer still work without goalkeepers, they'd just be really, really bad.

     Football without a QB is definitely possible; just run RB Direct Snap for every play. It would be stupid, but not much worse than hockey or soccer without a goalie.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Pitcher and Quarterback.

Actually, catchers are conventionally considered more responsible for the team's tactics on the field than pitchers are, oddly enough.

No! Death to CERA!

...Que?

This isn't (or, at least, isn't supposed to be) a statistical understanding of importance. But catchers serve as team captains, officially/semi-officially (Thurman Munson, Jason Varitek) or not, much more frequently than pitchers do, mainly because of the way pitchers are rotated from game to game. A catcher can start many more games per season than a pitcher can.