[truerookie]

Originally Posted by Freddy

2-11: A bookkeeping mistake may be corrected at any time
until the referee approves the final score.

Third quarter. Visitor player B1 is whistled for a personal foul. Just a minute or so prior to this I recall that the scoreboard showed that player had just committed his third foul. I go to the table to report the foul and the official scorebook keeper gives me the "That's his fifth foul" signal.

Now, the visitor's book has it that this was only his fourth personal. The scoreboard operator thinks it was only his fourth personal. The entire gym knows this was only his fourth personal. Heck, from what I sensed after seeing the scoreboard signify it was his third foul only a few minutes earlier, I thought it was his fourth foul, as did my two partners. But the official scorekeeper's book said it was his fifth personal foul.

Is this one of those "bookkeeping mistakes" which, due to an error obvious to everyone but the official scorebook keeper, may be corrected at the referee's behest, or do we have to go with what the official book says in spite of the erroneous nature of the table official's written record?

I would go with your knowledge along with 2-11-11; correct the official book and get the game moving again.