Nerds rarely care much about sportsball, jocks don't care for nerdery.

>>98237449
Look up fantasy football

>>98237449
>Not that I would actually play one
You just answered your own question.

The market for games that take place in the real world modern day where you're a mundane, normal person doing mundane, normal things that you can and/or probably already do IRL is extremely slim (unlike OP)

>>98237462
Fantasy Football is more like a sports-based boardgame.
>>98237459
That was true when we were in highschool over 25 years ago, but it really really isn't anymore.
>>98237449
To get a real sport to work, you'd need to find a small team game, like 3x3 basketball, people who like that sport, and brew up mechanics for the sport that are actually fun to play. It really just doesn't seem worth the effort.

>>98237449
Nerd shit is a separate and not equal silo for competition among people too weak for the usual social dance, which includes competitive athletics as a dimension of your life. It's really that simple.

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>>98237449
Blood Bowl?
>It's a board game
Yeah I guess, but you name your guys and get xp and money and all.
I don't think you can actually make a TTRPG that's JUST a game of a sport; it'd need to be focused around a campaign that consisted of a season or multiple seasons of a sport, with heavy emphasis on interactions between your team, other teams, and the franchise.

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>>98237449
GURPS Action 5

>>98237558
I came here to post this. Ive played 2 or 3 games of Blood Bowl like 20 years ago. It was fun enough for a change but it never really stuck with my group a d we went back to 40k. Same thing happened with Full Thrust, for about 2 months we were all over the custom starship building rules, played maybe 12 games between us all but in the end we just went back to 40k.

>>98237449
>Not that I would actually play one
You answered your own question

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>>98237449
Depends on your definition of "sport", I guess.

>>98237449
The unique point of RPGs is the freedom to produce any situation and react to it however you like. The key idea of sports is a reproducible situation and rules to restrict behaviour to mostly established parameters so athletes can be more fairly judged on their performance rather than situation.
They're not totally incompatible, but they're pulling in opposite directions.

There's an old Japanese tabletop RPG based on joshi wrestling
I think it was GURPS too

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There is a volleyball team-anime-themed RPG by Kevin Thien Vu Long Nguyen: "Volley Boys!!".

I only know about it, because it was released in Polish in both male (Siatkarze!!) and female (Siatkarki!!) versions. Essentially, it's a game focusing on teen drama, relations between team members, volleyball matches and everything around it.

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>>98237449
I think sports are fucking gay.

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>>98237449
Why fantasize about being an Olympic tinfoil tag player when I can be one of the King's Musketeers or a rogueish sky pirate?

>>98237449
Just go play sports...

>>98237449
because you can go out with a ball a couple of frinds and touch some grass while playing ball. Any type of ball.

You cant do that with wielding arcane mysteries or cutting goblinoids in half clad in full plate or hacking cyberspaces with your mind etc

>>98237541
>That was true when we were in highschool over 25 years ago, but it really really isn't anymore.
Surface level bandwagon riding for social clout doesn't count.

>>98242003
>Actually believes that shit
Oh, to be so blind and retarded. Life must be easy for you.

There is a lot of BGs about sports, altough they tend to be more casual or at least not particulary high in rankings. So I don't think nerds really disdain sport TGs.

Contrariwise it is true there are almost no RPGs about sports: some wrestling. I can't even remember them being in the background much, and honestly you would expect at least the usual fantasy fighter to have the option of some gladiatoral ludii or saracen joust (yes, it does happen, but pretty limited). I think I've seen a teen sports... PBTA, maybe? But can't remember the title.
Methinks it's a question of tradition, nerds in the eigthies not liking shit their dads liked: think of how fucking late romance RPGs came into the scene, and how much it's a common story element in world ficttion. Or in fantasy, for that matter.

A truly dedicated sport RPG would probably take hints from spokon: the squad is the cast of PCs, rivalry, heavy dramatization of mundane matches.

I think there's some potential in an anime style super powered soccer RPG, Inspired by the likes of Inazuma eleven and Galactik Football
Something like lancer, skewing towards wargame but with roleplay elements, though maybe a bit more developed. Have the roleplay elements actually influence the match, like rivalries and friendships actually influencing the stats of the players

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>>98237449
I play this with a group monthly. It's a lot of fun but we're also massive wrestling fans. I can't imagine it'd be great if you weren't.

>>98237449
>Not that I would actually play one
There lies the answer

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>>98237541

>That was true when we were in highschool over 25 years ago, but it really really isn't anymore.

QFT.

I personally don't really care about sports(other than kinda liking baseball for aesthetic/historical reasons) but since the late 00's you don't really see that sharp nerds/jocks divide as much anymore. The nerds/geeks realized sports hit a lot of those same brain switches as nerd hobbies and the normies/jocks got into nerd stuff like Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica.

I graduated HS in 02 and my friends are like a 50/50 split between hating sports on principle because they were the hobby of the bullies and liking them.

>>98237449
Is coffee good for you?

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Are sports proof of the theory that 90% of our brains are sleeping? And that ADD/ADHD kids are just faking it and need some discipline?

I mean, consider how when it comes to sports, the dumbest guy at your work suddenly understands statistical concepts that normies normally struggle with. He's a history buff who memorized hundreds of names and dates. He can explain the rules for multiple games.

>>98237449
There is probably some Japanese CoC adaptation for it. But generally people play sports IRL. Some kind of anime sports TTRPG could be interesting, but most people would rather play sports IRL and keep their fantasy TTRPGs in another genre.

>>98237449
Not sports rpgs, but I've thought about the fact there are no gameshow themed rpgs more than once.

>>98242152
I was actually coming into the thread to post this. I never played it but it seemed appropriate. A physical sport like this seems the most likely to at least be something you can play propely. Its all one on ones with big drama both in and outside of the ring.

Bloodbowl has been mentioned ( and Mutant Football League deserves a shout too) as something that could be sports RPGs as well but honestly I feel like it would be kind of limiting over time. You'd have to abstract so many rule of a sport to fit into a RPG otherwise it'll take ages to do anything. Keep it to board games I feel. Otherwise just GURPS it up. You can do anything in GURPS why not fantasy soccer.

>>98237459
Sports are incredibly nerdy

>>98244090
In my experience most people pretend to be stupider than they actually are.

>>98244090
>Are sports proof of the theory that 90% of our brains are sleeping?
The term for using 100% of your brain at the same time is called a stroke. The 90% bullshit is just that you're only using 10% at any given moment, because different regions apply to different tasks.