Scoring error at Boston.

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by MikeE

I haven't looked at the position of the ball detector beams, but if there is a situation where multiple balls only break the beam once, then there could be conditions that would cause a negative count.
I wonder what the FMS does when more balls are returned to play than it has counted as scored?

There are actually 2 beams for the counter. The FMS determines which way a ball is traveling based on which beam trips first. If the beam towards the field trips, and then the one to the DS does, it is a scored goal. The other way around, it is a double penalty. The situation you are thinking of, however, is most likely where a 2nd ball trips the first beam before the 1st ball clears the second beam. I'd imagine the system is programmed so that if the 1st beam is active when the 2nd beam clears, it detects it as a 2nd score. The only thing I can think of that would miss scoring a ball is an error in the software.

I'm also curious about how it handles a non-scored ball passing through the return