To many players on the field

[Punkpogoer]

OK this happened yesterday in one of our league games.

Starting the 3rd turn of the first half, both the coaches notice that one team started with 13 players on the field. The team that had the 13 had just lost 2 players and the coaches decided to overlook the problem and play on.

What should have been done?

[fire olli]

Thats just the way it goes. Its blood bowl anything can happen. I have done it myself, played a half with 10 men

They should have counted their men before hand.

[Darkson]

What should have been done?

That's up to the league, as there's no official rules what to do in this situation.

The reason there's no official rules (before anyone says there should be) is because the rules say both coaches should count the players on the field, so as far as the rules are concerned, this error will never happen.

[howlinggriffon]

I think the best option to take was the one that was taken.

[besters]

Given that the team had lost two players perhaps this was the best solution, but generally my experience is that excess players are removed on a random basis. Sometimes just looking at linemen as most people accept that specialist players would have been included in the starting line up.


Besters

PS: Personally I normally find out I have too many players on the pitch after the opposition has scored, for some reason having extra players seems to be a hindrance not a help!

[Punkpogoer]

thanks for the advice all

[DesTroy]

Given that the team had lost two players perhaps this was the best solution, but generally my experience is that excess players are removed on a random basis. Sometimes just looking at linemen as most people accept that specialist players would have been included in the starting line up.

That's pretty much what our league does, the excess is trimmed at random until 11 are left.

[Daefaroth]

If everyone is really concerned about not having the right number of people on the field try this.

Take a permanent marker and write the numbers 1-11 in squares in each endzone. Then coachers line up their players across the numbers before transfering them to the field. That way, no one should have more or less than 11 players on the field.

[Stout Youngblood]

Given that the team had lost two players perhaps this was the best solution, but generally my experience is that excess players are removed on a random basis. Sometimes just looking at linemen as most people accept that specialist players would have been included in the starting line up.

Ditto in our league, too.

Take a permanent marker and write the numbers 1-11 in squares in each endzone. Then coachers line up their players across the numbers before transfering them to the field. That way, no one should have more or less than 11 players on the field.

That's too easy!

[Warpstone]

What should have been done?

The best answer I've ever seen to this question: punch in the face.

[whitetiger]

Random acts of violence on the field does tend to solve that problem.

[Ender]

Our league would have just used "Illegal Procedure" and the opposing coach would have removed a player of his choice in a seriously competitive game, or just allowed a random player to be removed with no penalty in a friendly match.

[DoubleSkulls]

OK this happened yesterday in one of our league games.

Starting the 3rd turn of the first half, both the coaches notice that one team started with 13 players on the field. The team that had the 13 had just lost 2 players and the coaches decided to overlook the problem and play on.

What should have been done?

As others have said there is no official rule to handle this - since you aren't allowed to set up more!

My preferred solution is that the opposing coach removes excess players of his choice until you are down to the right number. So in this instance the opponent gets to remove 2 players. He could be nice and choose the two already off the pitch, or not and take the best two remaining players.

The reason I like this is that it makes about the penalty a little bit worse than the crime - so intentional fielding of extra players is very harshly dealt with, so encouraging both players to count.

[Ogre Marauder]

Hi folks,

Worst penalty would be to call 'illegal procedure' - ends the players turn (and gives you a RR?). Then you get your turn to smush players. If there's still 12 left, on opponents next turn--> Illegal Procedure...

Repeat until 11 players (or less) on pitch



BFN

Paul

[Andromidius]

Declare an Illegal Procedure. Offending coach removes randomly selected players until he/she has a legal team on the pitch. And then loses a reroll as per the Illegal Procedure rules.

Simple, effective.

~Andromidius