Hi mikusm
I start to read Your post-1 ... including incrementing the player unit to ball1/player1 and kicks out the ball - well, so far so good, THEN ", three times" - this "three times" I do not understand, please explain.
It is tricky to do strange stuff in an EM-Pin - hard to look-up in the schematics so I would like to do a start-up and then play a game.
See here https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1247&picno=64977&zoom=1 on the bottom is "left to right" the Control-Bank with its huge Reset-Arm. Please toggle-off the pin and unplug the main power cord (Safety Reasons) - then manually move the Reset-Arm - all relays do reset. Then plug-in the main power cord - then watch the Control-Bank while You toggle-on the main power switch - do You see the "QB-Game-Over-Relay(s) and the ZB-First-Ball-Relay" plunge / drop ? Then start a new game --- the pin does resetting - finally the Player-Unit steps to its Home-Position (Player-1-Ball-1) AND the pin does reset the Control-Bank (does Your pin do ?) - then the ball is kicked out. Now please make some tens points - make some hundreds points - big question: Does the ZB-First-Ball-Relay in the Control-Bank "plunge/drop" ?
(((We talk later about the Player-Unit - basically it is one step after - after - after --- Home-Position is Player-1-Ball-1 - then Player-2-Ball-1 - then Player-3-Ball-1 - then Player-4-Ball-1 - then Player-1-Ball-2 and so on))) Greetings Rolf