Field Advantage - Why Catching is the Most Important Thing

Alright, this'll be a little tough to explain. It should be easy to understand for anyone who plays games like chess or checkers or trading card games like magic the gathering or yu-gi-oh.

Now, this is basically a rule of thumb, but, the team with more players and more balls on their side of the field is more likely to win. I think just about everyone can agree with that.

Lets take a look at some numbers.

Lets say each person has a value of 2. and a ball has a value of 1. The balls are important, but having players on the field is even more important. They have the real potential to get people out.

Right now, blue team has a "score" of 10. 8 for the players and 2 for the dodgeballs.

Green has a score of 9. They have a lot of balls, as they should. Even though the numbers are so close, they are clearly losing, since they only have 2 players to their opponents 4. They don't want to give their opponents free range with throws.

But now, BLUE makes a throw and Green catches it!

All of a sudden, the score is Blue - 7 and Green - 11! They got a player, and a ball. and the opposing team lost a ball.That's a +5 advantage off one catch!

In an earlier post, I mentioned the importance of momentum. Since Green team has almost all the balls, they should easily throw one or maybe even two players out at this point, which would more or less result in winning the game

I'll post some videos explaining field advantage some more later. Comment below what you think!