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Originally Posted by Stat-Man
I started using different colors ever since a controversy when my dad was scoring a CYO season-ending tournament game. I have a set of 8 colored pens I rotate and I also switch the direction of my hash marks at the half, so that first half fouls are marked / and second half are marked \. The only exception is offensive fouls which I circle.
I've also begun to put a bar ( | or _ if the AP goes up to down) at the end of the AP for the quarter so I know whose ball it is to start the next one.
Even if the team foul count goes above 10 in the first half, I'll use + signs to indicate each foul above 10, just incase there is an issue with team fouls later in the game.
At MS games where we have a student scoring the home back, I make more of an emphasis to ask them about the foul count/time outs remaining just so there are no surprises in crunch time.
{NBA Aside} I will also use a triangle on the team foul count to indicate the first foul in the last two minutes. {/NBA Aside} I still find myself doing this even under NFHS rules.  |
I have always been more of a black-and-white kind-a-guy -- at least when it comes to scorekeeping. I trained scorekeepers in our league's gyms for years. My technique was simple. Make a normal slash (lower left to upper right) when recording each foul. At halftime (instead of running to get a hot dog or shooting at one of the baskets), the scorer would then change the spare (lower left to upper right slash) to a strike by making a back slash (lower right to upper left) mark over each existing foul. Just to be safe, I would then ask them to make the vertical bar for each player after all "strikes". I would also have them place a straight dash (-) through the remaining team fouls for the first half. This would force them to remember to record the team fouls in the second half boxes. I would also have them "close out" each quarter by making a squiggly line down through the quarter while capturing the total points and circling the number at the bottom of the quarter. This would prevent the scorer from accidentally recording scoring in the previous quarter. They would also make the similar vertical bar through the running score following each quarter. by completely "closing out" each quarter, any discrepancies were much easiter to see. We also created a line on the scoresheet for the possession arrow AND for referee fee paid (that was important for some folks
).