Scoring in sports

A few questions:

  1. Baseball: How should a “fielder’s choice” be indicated in an ordinary newspaper box score?
  2. Football: Does a player who crosses the wrong goal line ever score a “touchdown” for the other team?
  3. Basketball: Under what circumstances in pro or college baskteball does a shot score three points?
  4. If a basketball team fails to shoot in the time allotted by the shot clock, is it the same as when a football team fails to advance on fourth down?
  5. Roller derby: Granted roller derby, like wrestling, is staged: How does either team score points? By lapping all of the skaters on the other team?
  1. FC, if at all. I don’t recall a box score going into that kind of detail.

  2. No, it’s probably a safety.

  3. Both have designated 3 point lines, and both feet must be completely behind it when the shot is released*. “The 3-point arc in the WNBA, college and high school is 19 feet, 9 inches from baseline to baseline. The 3-point line in the NBA is 22 feet to the center of the rim when it runs straight out from the baseline. When it begins to arc, the line widens to 23 feet, 9 inches, shortening back to 22 feet as it straightens out and runs through to the opposite baseline.” cite

  4. It is a turnover, and the other team takes it out of bounds from the nearest sideline.

  5. no idea.

*Well, you can take a running shot, but your feet must be completely behind the line before you take off, and must not have touched the ground again before you released your shot.

5: Wrestling is not staged. “Wrassling” is staged.

/former wrestler.

As Casey1505 says, a box score is unlikely to expressly note a fielder’s choice as it would a sacrifice fly, error, or double play (among other actions). However, a fielder’s choice is recorded as a time at bat and no hit, just as an “ordinary” out (or reaching first base via typical fielding error) is.

Roller derby rules.

  1. Yep, lappin’ 'em. The number of players on the other team you lap is the number of points you score.

Professional wrestling is more staged than most plays I’ve attended. At least actors are allowed occasonally to improvise.

When the guy “punches” by slapping his whole forearm on the other guy’s pec while stomping his foot on the canvas to distract the spectators’ attention with a loud noise, that’s your first clue. When they trade places and the other guy does the slappin’ & stompin’, and then they alternate, one slap at a time for about six or eight thumps, that’s your second clue. And when four wrestlers in a circle-jerk headlock suddenly all grab folding chairs and clobber the ref, that’s your third clue.

Actually, the vast majority of a professional wrestling match is improvised on the spot. The wrestlers know the ending, and are familiar with each others moves, but in general they call their own spots in the ring.

Casy is right-safety.

Once a player to pad his rebounds (to get a triple double)shot at the other teams’ basket ,missed & got the rebound. AFAIK, it was later taken away.

  1. To add on - crossing the wrong goal line isn’t a safety until there’s a dead ball (he gets tackled/runs out of bounds). Running in to your own endzone happens in just about every game, and play does not stop automatically like when you cross the opposing goal line.

It’s also important to note that on a kick off or a punt, if the player catches it in the endzone and doesn’t leave it, it’s a touchback and not a safety. The ball is then moved to the 20 yard line and played from there.

True, but in this instance, he never really crosses the “wrong goal line.” If he came out of the endzone, then went back in (crossing the wrong goal line) and knelt down in an attempt to get the touchback, that’s a safety, correct?

Correct.

In Canadian football if you don’t run a punt out of the endzone then the kicking team gets 1 point. I think it applies to kickoffs too. If teams are way ahead they don’t mind giving up the point.