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Originally Posted by Jared341
I'm not that worried about getting them back onto the field; moreso concerned that reliably counting them one at a time using a narrow IR beam would pose a fairly significant engineering challenge (which would be a dual to the challenge that teams would then have to solve in how to collect and orient football game pieces). If you have a chute that forces the balls into a constant orientation for counting, there may be jamming problems when a large number of balls are scored at once. If you just let the balls fall in whatever orientation they want, your counter runs the risk of double counting if balls are rotating as they fall.
Though I suppose they could go the Breakaway route, and make the counting of balls occur when the humans are putting the balls back onto the field. Hmm... 
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Breakaway used counters for going into the goal and back onto the field. There was the penalty for holding them too long.