Scoring System Problems

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

This is perhaps the most perplexing of the field faults for me, mostly because I have a hard time wrapping my mind around how you mess this up.

Does anyone know of a legitimate reason the real-time score should ever be negative? The rules have always been pretty clear on the issue of negative scores...granted, the rule says "Final score" but I still think that displaying a negative score does nothing but cause confusion.



Jacob

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.

I understand that other events reported the DOGMA penalties after the match, which also caused confusion. The referee would confirm the score, the announcer would say, "No penalties" - and then there were 3 penalties appearing on the screen. Only the scorekeeper could see the DOGMA penalties separately.