As others have said, there is no requirement or support for the concept that the coach reviewing and signing the official book absolves the scorer for his/her responsibilities. The official scorekeeper's responsibilities are clearly spelled out in 2-11 and the first line reads "The scorer shall: keep a record of the names and numbers of players..." (2-11-1). Rule 2-11-2 provides the scorer with instruction to "notify the nearer official when there is an infraction of the rules - pertaining to submission of the roster...". The scorer is solely responsible for what is in the book, and the team is solely responsible for submitting a roster.

I'm sure there are plenty of coaches that appreciate this level of prep, but the danger in doing this is that each team is required to "supply the official scorer with the name and number of each team member and designate the five starting players." (3-2-1). If you have gathered the information yourself and ask the coach to review it, the team has not technically met the requirement of this rule. If all of the information is correct, nobody has an issue and the game goes on. If, however, a mistake was made and the coach misses it, we come back to the point others have made about the team only has a responsibility to provide the information. In your situation, the problem is that there was no information provided by the team (you provided it) so what may have started off as a scorekeeper's error can't be corrected because the team didn't provide a roster because you already had everything in the book.

ps: I don't want this to come off as a criticism or condemnation...if this practice works for you, the teams and the referees, by all means continue with it. I only make this point to highlight what others have commented on regarding the responsibility of the team to provide the information.

I made no such assumptions. I'm operating based on this post from you, and admittedly it's driving the way I've read your subsequent posts.

You say the rule book doesn't allow it, the reasonable takeaway is that you're saying the rule book requires a T but we should avoid it if we can.

I'll ask you, is that what you're saying?

So the rule book says "if the starters are wrongly marked in the official scorebook, then check the visitors scorebook to see if there was a transcription error"?

I never said the rule book doesn't allow you to do that. I was saying that it's something an official can do on his own, meaning it's not specifically said to do in the rule book, to make sure it's not a case of the team presenting the wrong lineup/starters. It's a way to prove an error in copying the lineup/starters into the official book, which can then be corrected without error.

I know I'm not the most well-spoken person here, but I don't think it was that hard to understand what I've been saying.

We also have an association heavy on people who ask the coaches to sign the bottom of the book verifying they have checked it (even at the subvarsity level).The officials here seem to like it especially because 99.999999995% of the time you have less than 10 minutes between JV girls and JV boys,JV boys and Var girls,or Var girls and Var boys.

Signing a scorebook signifies nothing.

I totally agree but as noted by others, my assn wants it done, no matter the level.

OK, I think we're probably talking past each other.

The rule book says it's a T to change the starters after the 10 minute mark. If the coach submitted the correct starters to the scorer, but the scorer messed it up, the coach isn't changing his starters. There's no T that can or should be called.

If you think we're in agreement, we can let this go. If you think we disagree, you can still let it go. I'm good either way, but feel free to tell me what you think I'm missing. I'm clarifying again, only for the sake of clarifying.

In the OP, we are obligated to determine whether the coach correctly submitted his roster and starters before the deadline. Calling a T on the coach for changing a starter when, in fact, he submitted the correct starters, is wrong by rule.

I think we agree.

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Who is trying to be argumentative? You have vets telling you how it's properly handled. What source do you use to prove the names and numbers were provided?

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I've actually been conversing with one vet, not multiple vets.

And we worked the misunderstanding out.

I'm not going to reiterate what I've spent the past two days explaining. If you care about it enough then you can go back and read what I've been saying about the words "check the visitor book" being in the rule book.

They aren't, but it's "implied" in the part that says the coach's responsibility is to provide the information. Whether it's the Visitor book, a program, or some internet publication....

I'm not going straight to the visitor book, I'm asking the coach how he provided the information and we'll go from there.

Added: I know we're probably in agreement, I just wanted to address the part about the words not being in the book.

In my opinion, this is where basketball needs to do what volleyball does. In volleyball, the coach has to turn in a roster and lineup sheet to the table at a specified time before the match and before each set.

In basketball, you can easily require the coaches to turn in a roster sheet with a column to list the starters. This would be the only legal way to turning in the roster/starters for a game. That paper, like in volleyball, would be required to stay at the table. Should an issue with the starters / roster come to the officials attention, there is one piece of paper that the officials can use to verify if the roster / starters was properly turned in. If the coach screwed up, they get the consequence. If the scorer screwed up, we fix the mistake and move on. With this required piece of paper, we avoid the confusion of "Where did you get the information from?" It comes from one specific, legally defined location, that is accessible to all parties involved.

Id prefer the baseball/Softball method, lineup card goes to the referee.

The words "check the visitor book" aren't in there, no. The concept of checking the lineup provided by the coach is. In many cases, particularly sub-varsity, the visiting book is that lineup. That is what you seem to be missing. We're not checking the visiting book because it's the visiting book but because it's the information provided by the coach to the scorer (except where he provided something else and then we're checking that).