Since we all had so much fun with the last discussion of numbers and scorebooks, here's a different scenario for you. Two players with jersey #4 for A, but one is in book as 14 and is wearing wrong jersey. A1 starts and commits a foul or two (I think - it was the first quarter, who knows for sure!). A2 later enters game and also fouls (or did he - I can't remember). A1 re-enters game at beginning and ref notices that two players have #4, issues T and A2 changes jersey to #14. #4 is in book with 3 fouls - who gets them?
If A2 did all of the fouling, we have given him 3 free fouls if we assess all fouls to #4 (A1). Opposite is true if A1 did all fouling and A2 gets "credit." But any division of fouls would be somewhat arbitrary.
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