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Re: Petition: Lower technical foul values to make this game better

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Originally Posted by PayneTrain View Post
-Other issues in fouls dont necessarily rely in the points they give up, but how the fouls are administered. Referees, to my knowledge, aren't given an extensive, consistent supplement on the vague, subjective rules in the manual.[...] but by the time the tablet is mashed at like a phone during a Flappy Bird session, it's hard ot tell who-hit-who there, and there was probably an assist as well during all of that, and now there's a bumper on the field... see what I mean?
I highly suggest volunteering to referee. I know for a fact that there's a supplement illustrating various concepts--two or three, actually--and "how to call the game". It's pretty extensive over the more common/nasty fouls. And then there's the whole "referees as scorekeepers", which I think I've expressed my opinion on. Be a lot easier if the refs could just call fouls.

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Originally Posted by KalliL View Post
My team racked up 100 points in fouls and we honestly didn't do anything to cause the fouls. This was a seriously unfair call, but I'm not going to go into detail on it, but it was completely unfair.
If you racked up 100 points in fouls, you had to have done SOMETHING. For example, maybe your human player took the ball off the pedestal before it was lit and entered it into play? (Or maybe jumped out of his box 5 times?) There are a lot of ways to get a hundred points in fouls, and not all of them are obvious. (Two G40 violations would do it, for another example.)

If every other team was called for the same offense, after committing it in the same way, it's not an unfair call. It's only unfair if it is called differently for one or two teams than for the rest of the teams.
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