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Originally posted by WestMichBlue
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Which seems more balanced to you?"
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NFHS.
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We disagree.
I'm not "justifying" either set of rules; only making an observation that the ASA rule seems to me to strike a better balance (for the imperfect field conditions) than does the NFHS rule. I'm not anti-NFHS. Overall, they do a good job of recognizing their "constituents" (if you will) - school-age girls. Whereas ASA must take into account a much broader constituency, including little kids, boys, men, and women.
However, in this case, I believe ASA has the better rule, even for schoool-age girls.
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Originally posted by greymule
ASA's rule seems more fair to me.
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I wouldn't say "fair" exactly, just keeps a better balance between the offensive mistake and the defensive mistake.
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Originally posted by greymule
To me, Fed's rule rewards the defense's error. Why does Fed insert an arbitrary point at which to strand runners?
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Exactly.