Fouls, penalties and sporting effect
Fouls, penalties and sporting effect
The discipline of a match is recorded player by player. Each foul belongs to a specific match and keeps four pieces visible to the organization: date and time, card color, penalized points and reason. In the current version the reason is free text, intended as a simple base that can be classified in more detail in the future.
How a foul enters
- The administration opens the player's disciplinary details from the foul indicator on their avatar.
- In the modal you can add, edit or delete foul records for that specific match.
- When changing the color of the card, the platform automatically proposes the default points defined in the round configuration: yellow, red or black.
- Those points remain editable by the administration if the situation requires it.
How other profiles see it
- The same detail can be opened in read-only mode.
- The table does not become an extensive spreadsheet: the main reading remains compact and is supported by the disciplinary chip and the modal summary.
- The user can see how many fouls there are, what colors were recorded, how many points they add up and what reason was recorded.
The cumulative color logic does not take the worst individual color recorded; instead, it takes the total penalized points and compares it to the active thresholds for the round. If the accumulated total reaches or exceeds the black threshold, the accumulated color becomes black. If it does not reach black but does reach red, red is displayed. If it only reaches yellow, it shows yellow. If the total remains below the first threshold, the table retains a more neutral reading.
Yellow threshold
Marks the first visible disciplinary level. Upon reaching it, the chip and the summary are no longer seen as a mere minor observation.
Red threshold
Activated when the total sum exceeds the average penalty level defined for the round. It does not depend on the existence of an isolated individual red card.
Black threshold
Represents the most severe disciplinary accumulation. It is achieved by total points and not just by the presence of an individual black card.
That same accumulated color is also shown within the modal, along with the total points. This way, the organizer does not need to interpret isolated figures and can see how many fouls there are, how many penalized points they add up to and what disciplinary level the player falls into within that table.
In daily operation it is convenient to distinguish two planes. The first is the disciplinary reading of the match, which today is already reflected on the table, in the modal and in optional columns of lists of matches and competitors. The second is the sports effect, which is based on the competitor's penalty within the round. This is where the configuration option Penalties can change the winner comes into play.
When the option is activated
- When closing the match, the system subtracts the player's penalty from their individual points in favor.
- If this adjusted total is below the points received, the player can go from individual victory to individual defeat.
- This modifies the reading of JG, JP, TF, TC, point difference and individual effectiveness.
- This is a way of saying that the table may have won as a pair, but one player can individually bear the sporting cost of their penalties.
When the option is disabled
- The penalty still exists as a disciplinary reading.
- The organization continues to see fouls, accumulated points and resulting color.
- But the platform does not use that penalty to return the individual result inherited from the table to the player.
This has an important consequence for the organizer: the winning pair of the table is not rewritten with the same logic as the individual result of the player. The pair continues to close by points, time or absence as appropriate. The penalty adjustment is applied to the competitor's individual reading. That is why fouls strongly affect the personal result and the disciplinary interpretation of the tournament, without automatically converting each penalty into a rewrite of the winner of the pair.
At the tournament monitoring level, this information is also projected to the lists. Matches and competitors can display optional columns of number of fouls, points for fouls and accumulated color. This helps the discipline not to remain hidden in a single table, but rather integrated into the general reading of the event.