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Old Wed Jan 14, 2009, 09:28am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
Was it correctly in the rules at one time, and then, as a result of an error in editing, got accidentally deleted, until you spotted the "error"? Isn't that what happened to the "line up" rule? It was accidentally edited out and then put back.
I doubt that anything was accidentally deleted. I expect that "bonus" used to be defined as 1 + 1 or 2 (depending on the team fouls). Then some genius realized that, in 1 + 1, only the second FT is a bonus.

The attempt to fix the rule, which wasn't really broken, broke it.
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