[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by just another ref

This is not recent change in NFHS, is it? Hasn't that always been the rule? If that is the case, it has nothing to do with software.

Originally Posted by Adam

Agreed. Software may or may not be an excuse for leaving it the way it is, but I don't see how software could have affected a rule that has been in place since Bill Gates was a kid.

The problem could easily be remedied by attaching names to stats rather than player number (I assume most do it that way anyway). The player number doesn't have to be a numeric field, even if it's a number, thus allowing for 0 and 00.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

It began in 2000 (it was announced in 97-98, to be effective a couple of years later)

The prohibition was adopted by both the NFHS and NCAA Men's/Women's rules committees at the same time. And it was indeed adopted because software for scoring and statistics was finding its way into the marketplace that could be used at courtside and it could NOT distinguish between 0 and 00. So ends today's history lesson.

MTD, Sr.