by the crew.
The following sports have 3 timeouts for each half football, hockey, and basketball.
So the coach can talk to his players and devise a strategy to win. There are also TV timeouts if the game is televised.
The regulation time on the clock for a NHL hockey game is 60 minutes (3 periods). If the score is tied, overtime is 5 minutes. Then come a shootout which is first 3 rounds, then if still tied, goes until one team wins. There are timeouts and such in the hockey game, so never is it 1 hour of actual time.
Timeouts remaining.
One for the whole game, 1 minute duration.
TV timeouts occurs after the first deadball situation after 16 minutes left in the period, 12 minutes left in the period, 8 minutes left in the period, and 4 minutes left in the period. Should a team call a time out during a period and the broadcaster go to commercial, one of the TV timeouts is deleted from the schedule.
There is one time-out per team in one game.It is a 30 second time-out
One for each team
Silly as it sounds, the length of a timeout depends upon how many TV commercials have been shown in the half. Besides the end of the quarter and the 2-minute warning, there are 8 additional "TV timeouts" which will extend the length of any given team timeout to 1 minute 50 seconds. Once all of the TV timeouts have been used up, any remaining team timeouts taken will only last 30 seconds.
Each team is allotted three time outs per half.
A time out is something a coach can call that stops times (hence "time out"). During this time, a coach can substitute players in and out of the ball game, draw up plays, talk to their players, or talk to the referee. This allows the players a break. There are 20, 30, and full time outs (which are 1 minute in length). Coaches have a certain number of timeouts, and after each half, they are restored. Although coaches can choose when to call most timeouts, some are mandatory. TV announcers will often refer to some timeouts as "mandatory timeouts." These are strictly to allow the television commentators a break. Both coaches must call a certain amount during the game by certain points, and if they don't, they will lose a timeout.