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Originally Posted by Eastshire
Keep an eye out for more players coming from the locker room. Other than that, since there is no penalty to be avoided through preventative officiating, there's no need to take any action.
The goal is to keep the game from being decided by a scorekeeper's error. Since points aren't going to be scored from too many names in the book, there's no need to worry about it.
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I would also add, that it may also jog the coaches memory. When I have more players in the book than I do on the floor I ask the coach is they are aware of that and if anyone else is coming. Usually, a player is sick or suspended or whatever and the scorebook keeper just copies one game to the next. THey also may have replaced a 'missing' player with someone else that may or may not be in the book. Or the coach may be expecting more people to come out of the training room/locker room then are in the book.
To me it is good preventative officiating, even though there is no rule!