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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
There apparently are two versions of the score system. At least at some locations in Week 1, DOGMA penalties were decremented from the score as they happened. I saw a -3 score on the display at Kettering.
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I don't think this is the case. During testing of the field at Traverse City, we found that the DOGMA penalties were not added in real-time, but rather in one big chunk at the end.
However, there is a penalty that can cause negative score. The scoring sensor work on the quadrature principle. In theory, it can detect the difference between ball-in and ball-out. In practice, it's only 99% correct. Every now and then, you have a ball-in counted as a ball-out, which is assessed a 2 point penalty (in real-time). A score of -3 means 3 balls were scored, 1 was scored "in", and 2 were scored "out" (or any # of scenarios where you get similar scores). I saw this happen at Cass Tech as well, when a team that had 7 points dropped to 5, instead of going up to 8, when they scored.