Double Personal

[budjones05]

Unable to determine which foul came first, me and my partner decided to just call a double foul. We were wondering if we should just call a jump ball or what? Can you all help me?

[Mark Dexter]

Can you give a few more details? Who fouled whom? What kind of fouls were you calling? Did you and your partner each have one foul, or did one of you have both?

[mick]

Originally Posted by budjones05

Unable to determine which foul came first, me and my partner decided to just call a double foul. We were wondering if we should just call a jump ball or what? Can you all help me?

The possession after a double personal foul is given to the team that had the ball and at the location of the ball, before the fouls occurred. That is called the point of interuption.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by budjones05

Unable to determine which foul came first, me and my partner decided to just call a double foul. We were wondering if we should just call a jump ball or what? Can you all help me?

I'm seeing two possibilities:

- you each observed a matchup where two opponents were gettin' at each other, or
- you each had a foul (each probably in your primary) and you got together to see which happened first, and thereby negating the 2nd unless warranted by rule

I think it was the 2nd possibility. I have no problems from a game mgmt POV to ding them both, if you can't determine which happened first.

Then use the POI. Back to the team that had the ball, or APA if there was no team control.

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

- you each had a foul (each probably in your primary) and you got together to see which happened first, and thereby negating the 2nd unless warranted by rule

I think it was the 2nd possibility. I have no problems from a game mgmt POV to ding them both, if you can't determine which happened first.

Just to clarify, this would be a simultaneous foul.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Mark Dexter

Just to clarify, this would be a simultaneous foul.

And just to further clarify, in the case of either a double or a simultaneous foul, the game continues from the POI.

[budjones05]

If I may add, we called fouls on the same play but he called it on the team a and I called it on team b...He was watching my zone, but we talked about it and decided to give double personals

[Lotto]

Originally Posted by budjones05

If I may add, we called fouls on the same play but he called it on the team a and I called it on team b...He was watching my zone, but we talked about it and decided to give double personals

If you have a double whistle on a play in your primary, you should generally take the foul.