RE: flopping in soccer
If being fouled leads to a direct free kick, why wouldn't you flop and try to draw fouls? Why wouldn't you try to set yourself up to score?
To reduce flopping in soccer, the penalty for a foul should be less enticing – a two-minute power play, perhaps.
Other ideas:
» No offside penalties in stoppage time.
» In elimination games, instead of a penalty shoot-out, teams continue playing 15-minute blocks of extra time until one team wins. For every block of extra time, however, each team must remove a player from play. So the first block of extra time is 9 vs. 9, the second, 8 vs. 8, et cetera.
» A yearly FIFA All-Star Game. Two player-captains draft teams from a pool of 44 players that the world votes in. Substitutions are unlimited so that every all-star gets to play.
A pretty good proposal and supporting argument.
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/23453/fixing-soccer-flopping/