Posted by wronoj on 7/9/2013 3:11:00 PM (view original):
it allows you to play with 5, and uses some antiquated rule to let them in. I think every additional foul by that player is a technical, or something like that. And I think there was a old basis in reality for it (a since-changed RL rule), that they use because the engine cannot deal with 4-on-5.
not sure about college... but it happened to the lakers this year when they had some injury issues and then several players fouled out. what you stated is what happened in that game... once they got down to 5 players, the sixth foul did not cause a foul out, but it did cause a technical.
i was kinda wondering if anyone had ever tried to take advantage of this rule in real life?
Your star is in foul trouble, so you quickly come up with a bunch of fake injuries and give notice that you are down to only 5 healthy players. now if he "fouls out" it only costs you a technical and he keeps playing.