Many double touch fouls

[g3force]

There were many double touch fouls in recent competitions.
Investigate, why? Is it correct? Or are the autoRefs wrong? Might be too difficult to detect, when ball is not fully visible.

Also, the name is confusing, because bot does not necessarily need to touch the ball twice. Ball just need to move for more than 5cm and still touch the ball.

• Rename the rule?

What is the main purpose of the rule?

• Assumption: To encourage doing a pass after free kicks / kickoffs.
• Do we want to insist on a minimum precision for the kicks, or can be lower it. For example increase the move distance from 5cm to 15cm.

[guyfleeman]

I always assume the rules was to prevent a really good team (like tigers or ZHU) from starting dribble plays literally straight from a kick require a pass and as such require an opening for the ball to be stolen etc. I think that's what the effect has been and I think requiring an opening pass is good.

I obviously haven't done any log analysis, but my gut feeling from the last 5 years or so is that many Div B double touches are the result of a dribbler near miss (off by a cm or so with a narrower mouth) or a faulty break beam. Many of these result in a successful second kick that occurs from within the center circle. Similar behavior on free kicks, but I think what to do about it there is less obvious. I think removing DT and just giving a small manipulation radius, at least for Div B kickoffs, would make the gameplay a lot smoother and not have a meaningful impact on strategy. It's just a more generous execution window.