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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Some information can be useful to an official. That certainly might include time left on the clock, what the teams are running and what the players can do, as well as other things. Knowing who has the arrow is only relevant if you mistrust your table personnel to properly keep track. Some information however is NEVER needed to officiate a game properly. That information includes how many fouls each player has committed. Knowing that information is of absolutely no value to an official ever imo.
Does that answer your question?
Btw, how would knowing how many fouls a player has help you officiate the "right" way?
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Yes it does answer my question, and thank you for being honest that you do use some of the stuff I mentioned and not others. The point of the question was to find out what people use in their game, what they don't and why. I think, and this is my opinion, that knowing the foul counts of players can be helpful. But I'm also the type of official that remembers specific plays and the time on the clock they happened so we can talk about them later. Ie a block/charge that happened at 2:15 left in the first half compared to the same block/charge at 3:12 of the second half. Call me crazy, but this too is very important for learning how to call the game consistently IMO. There is so much more to the game from an officials stand point than just calling fouls and violation. We have to understand why we call things and certain way and how doing so affects the game. That's what makes great officials. If it were easy then anyone could put on a striped shirt and blow a whistle. As we all know it's not that easy. I just think that knowing the fouls is one more tool we have in our belt to help us as officials. Heck most of the time they are on the board for us and everyone else in the arena, not to mention the announcer tells the crowd how many that player has and how many team fouls on the offended team after every foul. The score board, which shows the score, time, period, timeouts left, possession arrow, team fouls and player's number and number of fouls isn't just there so the fans have that information, it is there for us too. Why not use it? We do so to communicate when the next foul will be the bonus or double bonus. Why not for when the next foul will be a players fifth? All this information is there for us all we have to do is be aware of it.