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[QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 2961173, member: 1673"]
Lots of good points in this thread prompts some thoughts. Why is basketball unique with players fouling out? Is it because of the contact nature of this "noncontact" sport? Other reasons? No reason other than that's just the way it is? In any case one possible solution could be that surpassing a foul limit brings extra benefits to the opponent, rather the ultimate penalty to the player. Let's use Coco's suggestion of four fouls. After the fourth, subsequent fouls by that same player awards both foul shots and possession to the opponent. This still penalizes the player further in that the coach has to think twice about keeping a player in that's going to provide extra benefits if he/she fouls, while the player has to be aware of that as well. Perhaps a better system of benefits could be conceived along the same compromise principle: keep the player in as with other sports but have a foul limit that, when surpassed by a player, increases the benefits to the opponent.
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