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Injury Default vs. Medical Forfeit; Is there any difference?
Topic Started: Jan 30 2016, 11:17 AM (1,249 Views)
Myrddin
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Entering matches into track for the section tournament (for what is surely going to become a trainwreck ... no pun intended) I see that Injury Default and Medical Forfeit are both options.

Is there a technical difference?

The only think I can think of is that injury default happens in the middle of the match and medical forfeit would be the proper term if the match never happened but a wrestler could not continue in a tournament situation.
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WrestlingOfficial
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For Track I have no idea if it matters. Technically there is no difference from a win/loss/team scoring.

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I think you are on the right track as far as your thinking. The only difference that I can think of between the two is that a win by injury default counts towards a wrestler's 5 matches-per-day limit where advancement due to Medical Forfeit does not.

Also, an injury default is for one match, a medical forfeit is always for the rest of the tournament (an injury default does not automatically disqualify a wrestler for the rest of his matches).

The other difference that I can think of is that a wrestler can win by MFF but can't lose by it. Medical Forfeits don't count as losses where as Injury Defaults do.

While I'm at it - disqualification for a skin issue would be technically Medical Forfeit as opposed to DQ or Inj Dft.
Edited by Iowan@heart, Feb 1 2016, 08:31 AM.
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Feb 1 2016, 08:19 AM
I think you are on the right track as far as your thinking. The only difference that I can think of between the two is that a win by injury default counts towards a wrestler's 5 matches-per-day limit where advancement due to Medical Forfeit does not.

Also, an injury default is for one match, a medical forfeit is always for the rest of the tournament (an injury default does not automatically disqualify a wrestler for the rest of his matches).

The other difference that I can think of is that a wrestler can win by MFF but can't lose by it. Medical Forfeits don't count as losses where as Injury Defaults do.

While I'm at it - disqualification for a skin issue would be technically Medical Forfeit as opposed to DQ or Inj Dft.
In a tournament, a medical forfeit (due to injury or illness occurring in the tournament) does not disqualify a wrestler for the rest of the tournament - which is why the 'medical forfeit' is noted. Any other FF would be DQ for the remainder of the event. I believe a DQ because of skin issue is recorded simply as a forfeit win, but no opponent is listed because it was caught before or immediately after the weigh ins. Whereas a skin issue showing up after the match starts happens because the weigh in official/administrator missed the problem (or the rare case that shows up midway through an event and is caught once the match begins) and it would become a DQ showing as a loss, with forfeits given to opponents the rest of the event. Medical forfeits should not be recorded on the forfeiting wrestlers record at all, only on the receiving wrestler's sheet (and no opponent would be listed because there was no opponent).
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