Number of Team Members Allowed
 

This partial post from another thread brings to mind an interesting question.

What is the most team members you normally see? Most of the scorebooks I've seen only have room for 15 players per team. Most of my games have 12 or less, but occasionally a team may have more than that on the bench, even though you know some of them won't be playing.

Our state tournament only allows 12 players on the roster. I believe there is an allowance for some alternates too in case of injury between the end of the region tournament and the start of the state tournament.

What do most of you see?

16 or 17 is not unusual. But seeing around 12 is not way off either at many schools for the boys teams.

Peace

16 or 17 isn't unusual?

We'll see anywhere from 9 to 17 on the varsity bench. Typical is about 12.

Postseason here has a limit of 15.

I notice it a few times a year and at a glance when there are 17 players I recognize a few of them from JV. Never see them play, so, meh.

Nope. There are many times where they have to "split" a section to get two players in the same column in the score-book. I see that often. There is no regular season limit but there is one for the post season. I think many of the kids are lower level players that a coach wants to use every now and then.

Peace

Well, 17 is odd, but it's not unusual.

I had 20 in an NCAAW game recently.

I had 26 on my junior high basketball team. They only cut one player. Imagine what that book looked like. Last year that happened at that school.

Forget the book. Imagine what practice looked like.

I'll raise you two. 22 on an NCAAW roster in November. Team was in NYC from Ohio and brought its JV squad along. The players were all in uniform so all of them went into the scorebook.

I have a D3 squad I've had twice this season that dressed 19 players each game.

By the NFHS rulebook, the limit is 31, but that's only because of the numbering requirements.

It's 36 isn't it? 0,1,2,3,4,5 are possible as the first or second digit gives 36 combinations.

I've reffed twice this season for a team that was using crazy numbers (73, 38, etc.) These were sub varsity games. Anything I can do in that case?

Get really good, really fast so you don't have to ref those games anymore. :D

That's what I figured.

Ask your local / state association whether that (or any other uniform) restriction is to be enforced at sub-varsity levels.

35. They can't have both 0 and 00.

Of course, they can have more than 35 but would have to suffer the consequences of an illegal number . . .

The "0 and 00" argument is for 36 total vs. 37. They can't have "1 and 01" either, but that doesn't bring the total down to 34.

Here are the combinations:

0 1 2 3 4 5
10 11 12 13 14 15
20 21 22 23 24 25
30 31 32 33 34 35
40 41 42 43 44 45
50 51 52 53 54 55

Legal Numbers
 

Please count again. 0,1,2,3,4,5 is 6 numbers.
Bob types faster than I do.

14 players is the number I see most often.

Doh!!!

Yeah, it's 36, not 31... counting is hard.

And... to think... I was a Math minor in college.

So, in an absolute worst case scenario, you could have 358 total fouls on players in a single game (everyone fouls out except one player per team, and those two players have 4 fouls apiece, in a situation where both teams still have a theoretical chance to win the game).... plus however many technical fouls... which could theoretically be infinite, given an infinite number of assistant coaches (which it seems like some schools are at least attempting to have on staff).