Field Glitch Caught on Camera

[Thad House]

I had been noticing issues with the displays all season long. It would do things like reset to 0000, then run 1111 through 9999 and then it would revert back to the real team number. I think the FMS this year had just a few too many bugs, and hopefully they are better next year. I would notice this multiple times at events.

[scca229]

Originally Posted by Thad House

I had been noticing issues with the displays all season long. It would do things like reset to 0000, then run 1111 through 9999 and then it would revert back to the real team number. I think the FMS this year had just a few too many bugs, and hopefully they are better next year. I would notice this multiple times at events.

The running from 0000-9999 is part of the self-test from the displays at power-on. Someone might have stepped on the power cable or something or just a flaky connection at the power strip. I had one display on the Phoenix field that was being a pain that I worked with when the same field was being set up in Las Vegas and turned out to be the connector was loose...tightened it up and it behaved for the event.

The displays have no actual bearing on the FMS other than showing to the participants/spectators who is in what station and the match timer, which it receives and sends nothing back. You can unplug them completely and the FMS wouldn't care...think like the clock not showing correctly at a football game and the time then being tracked using the Umpire's clock, which is the real official one at a football game anyway with the scoreboard one being for the crowd to see.