[EricH]

Originally Posted by carrud

When are penalty points assessed? Are they assessed immediately, and therefore a team penalized early potentially looses zero points.

I see what the rule says. However, what I think actually happens in software is more like:

"Current score is X. X-6. Wait, that's <0, so I just display 0. OK, score is now up to 0, keep showing 0. NOW score is positive. Wait, another -6. But the score is still positive, so keep showing the score."


You don't lose zero points for an early foul. You lose all the points assessed, at some point--unless you're below zero--so the outlined situation is more reasonable.

Back when this sort of foul stuff was more common, they'd just show the score, then knock off the points at the end.