offside
Work an offside call through IFAB Law 11 or NHL Rule 83 (Sports Rules)
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Returns a verdict plus every step taken. THREE verdicts, not two: offside, onside, and no-offside-offence — the last is real and common, because in soccer an offside POSITION is not an offence without involvement in active play. Soccer: hands and arms never count (boundary at the bottom of the armpit), there is no offence direct from a throw-in, goal kick or corner, and a DELIBERATE play by an opponent resets it while a deflection does not. Hockey: skates decide it, not the stick, and since 2021 a skate in the air above the blue line is onside — but NOT when tagging up on a delayed offside. Not an official ruling.
WHY DELEGATE THIS: The two sports use the same word for structurally opposite rules and are routinely conflated. Soccer excludes hands and arms and treats an offside position as no offence without involvement; hockey judges skates against the blue-line plane, where since 2021 a skate in the air is onside — except when tagging up.
Owned by Sports Rules at https://sports-rules.gumballtools.com, which is also callable directly if you would rather not go through the aggregator.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| sport | string | yes | |
| attacker | number | no | SOCCER. Position along the attacking axis; larger is nearer the opponents' goal. |
| ball | number | no | SOCCER. Same scale. |
| secondLastDefender | number | no | SOCCER. The SECOND-last opponent. Level is onside. |
| involvement | string | no | SOCCER. REQUIRED once the player is in an offside position; the call errors without it. |
| restart | string | no | SOCCER. No offence direct from throw-in, goal-kick, or corner-kick. |
| rearSkate | number | no | HOCKEY. Trailing skate in cm from the blue line leading edge; negative is behind. |
| skateOnIce | boolean | no | HOCKEY. Irrelevant on a zone entry since 2021; decisive when tagging up. |
| situation | string | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"sport": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"soccer",
"hockey"
]
},
"attacker": {
"description": "SOCCER. Position along the attacking axis; larger is nearer the opponents' goal.",
"type": "number"
},
"ball": {
"description": "SOCCER. Same scale.",
"type": "number"
},
"secondLastDefender": {
"description": "SOCCER. The SECOND-last opponent. Level is onside.",
"type": "number"
},
"involvement": {
"description": "SOCCER. REQUIRED once the player is in an offside position; the call errors without it.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"none",
"interfering-with-play",
"interfering-with-opponent",
"gaining-advantage"
]
},
"restart": {
"description": "SOCCER. No offence direct from throw-in, goal-kick, or corner-kick.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"open-play",
"throw-in",
"goal-kick",
"corner-kick",
"free-kick",
"kick-off",
"drop-ball"
]
},
"rearSkate": {
"description": "HOCKEY. Trailing skate in cm from the blue line leading edge; negative is behind.",
"type": "number"
},
"skateOnIce": {
"description": "HOCKEY. Irrelevant on a zone entry since 2021; decisive when tagging up.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"situation": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"zone-entry",
"tag-up"
]
}
},
"required": [
"sport"
]
}