ASA numbering requirements

[slapperdad]

Under ASA code, is 01 and 1 the same number? NF rule book is pretty explicit that they are.

[PDad]

Some of the automated scorekeeping software won't distinguish them. The software PGF used, Pointstreak, didn't store "00" accurately.

Are you trying to accomodate two # 1's so neither one has to change numbers? Does either of them have a pole barn?

[UmpSteve]

They were at one time but the rule was changed and they are now considered different numbers.

And reasonably so. The numbers are intended to provide a means of identification different from other players on the team, while maintaining some decorum (no fractions, decimals, pi, etc.). The fact of mathematical equivalency doesn't detract from meeting that intent.

At the time that rule changed (maybe 10 years ago), no one considered how a computer program might address it. It would be, in fact, such an easy fix for the programmers, to make that field a numerical label rather than a number, that no one should consider that a major reason to not allow it.

[MTR]

They were at one time but the rule was changed and they are now considered different numbers.

And reasonably so. The numbers are intended to provide a means of identification different from other players on the team, while maintaining some decorum (no fractions, decimals, pi, etc.). The fact of mathematical equivalency doesn't detract from meeting that intent.

At the time that rule changed (maybe 10 years ago), no one considered how a computer program might address it. It would be, in fact, such an easy fix for the programmers, to make that field a numerical label rather than a number, that no one should consider that a major reason to not allow it.

I still think there was some NASCAR influence there

[slapperdad]

Nothing to do with players, these were extra unis for the occasional pick up player with a team full of Basketball stars