What happened in this FOF MP game?

[Cringer]

Ok, this is the end of a game from an MP league I am in. I am the Packers and I won, so I am not really complaining here but this is a little odd.

1-01-GBY01 (00:47) Penalty: TBY - False Start.

1-06-GBY06 (00:47) TBY 17 Harrington scrambled for 4 yards.
Tackled by GBY 42 Sharper.

2-02-GBY02 (00:31) TBY 17 Harrington spiked the ball to stop the clock.

3-02-GBY02 (00:27) TBY 17 Harrington scrambled for 1 yard.
Tackled by GBY 28 Thornton.

4-01-GBY01 (00:05) Penalty: TBY - Delay of Game.

4-06-GBY06 (00:05) TBY 17 Harrington pass completed to 85 Brown for 4 yards.
Tackled by GBY 56 Barnett.
The ball goes over on downs.

How did that delay of game get called?

[Tekneek]

How did that delay of game get called?

Clock must have been out and the ref got it wrong on his watch.
:confused:

[Chubby]

maybe someone kicked the ball? sure there were no timeouts in there?

[Cringer]

does not say there was a time out. that is from the game log, so i assume there was not one. that was the first thing i thought of. I guess the kicking of the ball is reasonable, but that is usually when the defense does that i thought....

[Joe]

looks like another example of the AI not having good knowledge of football, stuff like this happens all the time.

[Cringer]

looks like another example of the AI not having good knowledge of football, stuff like this happens all the time.

ya, i figured it was just a flaw. but i wanted to see if anyone else could give a good reason before just writing it off as that

[Celeval]

Injury (feigned or real) when out of timeouts - 10 seconds counted off the clock, five yard penalty, clock restarts on snap.

[Joe]

it doesnt mention an injury though

[cthomer5000]

Since it was called on the offensive team, there should have been a :10 runoff, correct? Am I correct in saying Tampa should not have been able to run that final (inconsequential) play?

[Celeval]

So let's call it a fake injury. 0:27 at the snap... 0:12 is a reasonable (probably overlong) amount of time for a Harrington run. So there's a 'fake' injury at 0:15, run 0:10 off the clock to 0:05 and start on the snap.

I'm more likely thinking there's an issue someplace, but figured this was as good an explanation as any. :-)

[Cringer]

ok, i'll buy it I guess.

Oh, and this was a problem with the Tampa owner because if he scored and made the PAT, then he would have won the game. I was up by 6 points. Just noticed I never said that, and that is why we focused on this last series when we looked at the log.