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Originally Posted by bucky

I do not care for these types of things. A player/person on the bench, with the full intent of being eligible to play, can get a technical foul. If that person is not in the book, how does one record the technical foul? To me, if it is recorded on A3 then A3 needs to be added to the book, for the very least, statistical/record keeping purposes. Now maybe, when this occurs , there should be no administrative technical. Just does not seem right, from a scorekeeper perspective. What is the same bench person gets another one? How do you record ejecting someone that is not even listed in the book? Something is not right.

You bring up a good point. For 10-5 - Bench Technicals in the Penalty section it says that the foul is charged "to the offender." Well let's say the offender is the manager. We're not going to add the managers name to the book but rather we'll just have them record it as a footnote. Since by definitions both a non-listed A33 and the manager are both bench personnel it seems you would treat them the same. Which is what we did and just made a footnote noting the technical on A33. And not charging them administratively. jmo