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Why is a 50m penalty NOT a penalty?

KysaiahMessiah
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50m Penalties in the AFL stat's are credited to the side benefiting.   Surely it's not a penalty then?  Has irked me for a long time.  Definition (admittedly Wikipedia, but still, accurate)  .
(in sports and games) a handicap imposed on a player or team for infringement of rules.

Anyone know why it's recorded this way?

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    The side that gets the advantage is getting a 50m "benefit".

    But more importantly, I want to know if the umpires have an accurate way to measure them, or are they just roughly estimated. One a couple of weeks ago was measured at 65 metres.

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    11 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

    The side that gets the advantage is getting a 50m "benefit".

    But more importantly, I want to know if the umpires have an accurate way to measure them, or are they just roughly estimated. One a couple of weeks ago was measured at 65 metres.

    Maybe in the benifits of the accuracy of definition we are seeking in this topic, we should also rename them 50 ± 15m benifits? 😊

    Edited by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

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    15 hours ago, KysaiahMessiah said:

    50m Penalties in the AFL stat's are credited to the side benefiting.   Surely it's not a penalty then?  Has irked me for a long time.  Definition (admittedly Wikipedia, but still, accurate)  .
    (in sports and games) a handicap imposed on a player or team for infringement of rules.

    Anyone know why it's recorded this way?

    Isn't it the same principle as a free kick - ie, for and against? For every free kick for that a team is credited with, a free kick against is credited to its opponent. Isn't it the same with 50m penalties? 

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    I don't know about you all but I am finding it extremely difficult to find where 50m penalty stats in games?

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    45 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Isn't it the same principle as a free kick - ie, for and against? For every free kick for that a team is credited with, a free kick against is credited to its opponent. Isn't it the same with 50m penalties? 

    I'm maybe caught up on the language.  Isn't a free kick given?  But the word penalty means to penalise,  not award.  Anyway, probably one of my quirks 😀

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    16 hours ago, KysaiahMessiah said:

    50m Penalties in the AFL stat's are credited to the side benefiting.   Surely it's not a penalty then?  Has irked me for a long time.  Definition (admittedly Wikipedia, but still, accurate)  .
    (in sports and games) a handicap imposed on a player or team for infringement of rules.

    Anyone know why it's recorded this way?

    Agree this has always bugged/confused me too.

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    To be honest, when reading stats of a game I haven't seen which says (hypothetically) that it was Melbourne 2 x 50m penalty and our opponents 0 x 50m penalty, I have no idea whether that means we received two or gave two away. 

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