[Adam Freeman]

Originally Posted by IndySam

I have seen many many instances where a team defending deliberately knocks a ball away from an offensive robot attempting to pick it up. Because this didn't meet the technical definition of herding in the manual it wasn't a foul. I always thought this was wrong. Deliberately deflecting a ball to me is possession, even if it's one hit. I wonder if this update effects this in any way. I would love to see a 20 point foul assessed for this action.

I'd be all for that, if they also loosened up the purse strings for handing out inital assists for inbounders one-bumping a ball to the next team.

Seems the only way to get that inital inbound assist is for the inbounding team to hold the ball in their machine.

If the purpose of the game is to work together, we need to make it easier for teams to contribute to their alliance.

Although, I'm not convince the refs can tell the difference between deliberate and accidental bumping of a ball. This would probably just add more penalties to the game.