Advantage/Disadvantage is over rated

[zebraman]

Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser


There are other disadvantages other than the shot not going in. If a B player is allowed to contact the airborne shooter without penalty, the A players could be intimidated by the fact that they KNOW that they can't leave themselves vulnerable as an airborne shooter. THAT'S a disadvantage. We need to protect our airborne shooters, provided they aren't contacting someon with LGP.

Well if we start calling every contact as a foul because we're worried that players might start being intimidated that they might be contacted...... yikes.

I think you just made my point for me that we call some contact as a foul even if it doesn't disadvantage a player. There are more reasons to call fouls than just adv/dis. The exact same contact in one game that is called a foul might not be called as a foul in another game.

Adv/dis isn't the only reason we call fouls.

Z