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Failed to pick up turn over.

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:38 am
by Infernarl
In the computer game, when a player fails to pick up the ball and it then scatters and is caught, it is a turn over.

My sense from reading the rules is that since it came to rest on a player, it would not be a turn over.


Am I wrong or is the game?

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:11 am
by skritter
TURNOVERS
Normally, a turn only ends when all of the players in the team
have performed an Action. However, certain events cause the
turn to end before all of the players have taken an Action. These
events are called turnovers. The following events cause a
turnover:

1. A player on the moving team is Knocked Down (being injured
by the crowd or being Placed Prone is not a turnover unless it is
a player from the active team holding the ball … e.g. skills like
Diving Tackle, Piling On and Wrestle count as being Placed
Prone) or
2. A passed ball, or hand-off, is not caught by any member of the
moving team before the ball comes to rest or
3. A player from the moving team attempts to pick up the ball
and fails
(note: failing a catch roll, as opposed to a pick up, is by
itself never a turnover) or
4. A touchdown is scored or
5. The four-minute time limit for the turn runs out or
6. A pass attempt is fumbled even if a player from that team
catches the fumbled ball or
7. A player with the ball is thrown or is attempted to be thrown
using Throw Team-Mate and fails to land successfully (including
being eaten or squirming free from an Always Hungry roll) or
8. A player is ejected by the referee for a foul.

A coach that suffers a turnover is not allowed to take any further
actions that turn, and any action being taken ends immediately
even if it was only partially completed. Make armour and injury
rolls for players that were knocked down, and if the ball was
dropped then roll to see where it bounces too normally. Stunned
players should be turned face up, and then the opposing coach
may start to take their turn.

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:45 am
by Grumbledook
yes it is a turnover

the ball coming to rest in the hands of one of your players is only after a pass, if you fail a pick up roll though it is a turnover regardless of this

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:54 am
by inoculator
I had this the other night in a game.

Player attempted pick up, failed & ball scattered onto team mate who made the catch.

No turnover.

Guess I should probably report it as a bug.