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Originally Posted by slow whistle
Sat night BV I am R. So I go over with around 11 mins left in pre-game to check books. They are not ready, but I ask the official scorer if he has everything that he needs, he says yes he is just copying. Fine, so we go get captains and do pre-game. I get back over to check the book now there is around 7 minutes left. I go to check the home team and see that they have no starters checked so I ask the official scorer and he says "oh yeah it is usually the top 5" (of course the V scorer is sitting right there listening attentively). A home assistant is standing nearby and hears the discussion so he chimes in, "It is ALWAYS the top 5 for us". So I check the top 5 and move along. My question though is what does the H team have to do to satisfy the requirement of "supplying the scorer" with the starters? Should the HC or an assistant actually be transcribing names/numbers/starters into the official book, or is it appropriate to rely on the scorer to do so from say, last night's game? And if so are they then on the hook if the scorer has a brain lapse like this?
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Were you the R or the assistant scorer?
The only requirement by rule is that that name and number of each team member and who the 5 starters are have be given to the scorer at least 10 minutes before the scheduled starting time. It's now the scorer's job to correctly enter that info into the book. If the info gets wrongly entered by the scorer, it is NOT a team technical foul. It is a scorer's mistake and you can't penalize a team for that mistake. You simply get the book changed.
That part of your job was done at the 11-minute mark after the scorer told you that he had all of the info and was copying it. That's all that you need to know and there's now no reason to hang around the scorer. Just make sure at around the 1-3 minute mark that the scorer is set to go. If not, give him the extra time that he might need. And please don't do the scorer's job for him. What do you do if
you mistakenly check a wrong starter's number? Is it still a bookkeeping mistake if the official makes it?
JMO.....