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Originally posted by Mark Padgett:
Why is this distinction important? Older score books sometimes don't have a place to cross off technicals in the same place personals are crossed off. Sometimes a scorer will ask you if a technical is a personal meaning should he mark a foul in the personal section (so it counts toward the 5). If that's all they do, they may lose track of the technical being called against that player for future reference.
If that's the case, I always tell them that the technical doesn't count as a personal, but it does count toward the five and that they have to somehow mark it that way in the book, while still indicating that the player has one T.
Newer scorebooks eliminate that problem for the most part, because they have the 5 personal boxes and the 2 technical boxes in the same place and it's fairly obvious that a total of 5 is a DQ while a total of 2 technicals is also.
One thing I like to do (especially when dealing with books that have PF's all the way on the left and TF's all the way on the right) is fill in one of the 5 foul boxes with a "T" when a technical is called. That way you don't have to count and think whether or not the limit has been reached.
BTW (for Brian Watson), what is the triple whammy?