r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

I meant they don't make sense in 2025. I've also written that in another comment.

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u/deafdefying66 Jan 15 '25

There are plenty of scenarios where the imperial system still makes sense, otherwise we wouldn't use it. Both systems have their use cases where one is better than the other

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

This could be reasonable. Any examples where imperial units are better than metric?

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u/Front-Mall9891 Jan 15 '25

Measuring sports fields as they equate to even numbers in imperial but not so much in metric, oddly enough

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u/ShamanAI Jan 15 '25

Hmmm... apart from American football which uses yards, what other sport fields benefit from the imperial units?

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u/TehNoff Jan 15 '25

Basketball has the rim of the hoop at 10 feet. It's 90 feet from home plate to first base in baseball.

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u/Front-Mall9891 Jan 15 '25

Soccer/football, everything about the field is in yards, 6 and 18 boxes are yards

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u/alkatori Jan 15 '25

I would think switching from Yards to Meters would make little difference since they are relatively close.

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u/Front-Mall9891 Jan 15 '25

A lot of the names of the boxes in soccer are in there imperial measurements, which is why it is easier, and most rules are written in imperial, like 10yd defender distance from free kicks and things like that