Yikes! Passing Problem Discovered !!!

Purrbear · Post by **Purrbear** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:47 am

I was re-reading the LRB and discovered something we've always misinterpreted.

On page 39, second column, 2/3rds of the way down:

"... A player who makes an ACCURATE pass that is caught by another earns 1 Star Player point...." (emphasis mine)

We have always given an SPP if the pass was completed . . . but apparently that's wrong, it has to be both ACCURATE and COMPLETED to a member of your team (interceptions don't count).

Is this the way everyone plays it? Or have you been like us and just given an SPP for a completed pass, accurate or not?

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:50 am

Yep, has to be Accurate fot the SPP.

Princelucianus · Post by **Princelucianus** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:50 am

We always played that a pass has to be caught, in order to get the completion. That's the way to do it.
Accurate passes are to frequent, failing catchers is the way to frustate the throwers

Lucy

Purrbear · Post by **Purrbear** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:57 am

We HAD been giving an SPP if the pass was successfully caught (accurate or not) by a member of the passing team. Didn't realize that it had to be accurate as well.

I guess that we're just too familiar with American Football here on the west side of "the Pond". In American football, if anyone catches the pass on your team it is a "completion".

Oh well, live and learn.

narkotic · Post by **narkotic** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:19 pm

We play by the book.
Why someone should gain experience from an action he screwed (regardless if the overall action succeeded because the reciver did his job well).

Its like giving CAS SSPs for someone who knocked an opponent down, broke the armour but just rolled a stun result or someone failing a GFI in order to score a TD?

Longshot · Post by **Longshot** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 9:31 pm

LoL,
of course it has to be accurate!!!

Heiper · Post by **Heiper** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:35 am

We had a thrower in our league that managed to get a comp by throwing the ball to himself. We had a good laugh in that game

He was throwing to one a square away, it was accurate but the catcher didn't catch it. So it started to scatter, and hey, it ended on the thrower, he caught it, and a completion it is

. It's gone down in our leagues history books that one.

Longshot · Post by **Longshot** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:27 pm

it happens to us too but this is not a clear completion.(so no spp for that)

Heiper · Post by **Heiper** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 9:09 am

Actually, it doesn't say in the rules that the accurate pass needs to be catched by the one you threw it too, just that it needs to be catched. So, it could be given SPP for that one.

Relborn · Post by **Relborn** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 9:42 am

nope not quite true ... the accurate pass has to be caught by ANOTHER player ... so the self caught pass don't count as a completion