[wilshire]

well we played around with how much it might affect the "play" of the ball. it seems that the hard spot tends to allow for the ball to want to have that hard spot always closest to the ground, or in other words could cause some nasty spin. The other thing we looked at was if we were to use a roller system how the compression on that hard spot versus anywhere else on the ball and how much of a impact that would make in being able to grab the ball using that roller system which would basicly compress the ball by a total of about 1" to get a good grip on the ball. However it is all up to you and your team to consider these kinds of factors along with possible compression of balls throughout the matches.