I wish NFHS mechanics indicated...

[Hugh Refner]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

There is already a standard for 2-hand reporting. Right hand is the "tens" and left hand is the "ones".

This mechanic was developed to relieve us from having to take our shoes and socks off to indicate a foul on a player whose number was higher than 10.

[BryanV21]

I didn't know there was a standard in high school officiating. I don't see the big deal, anyway.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BryanV21

I didn't know there was a standard in high school officiating. I don't see the big deal, anyway.

There isn't. There is a standard for 2-hand reporting, in response to this:

Originally Posted by BryanV21

Two hand reporting can also be confusing for the table.

Say I want to report a foul on number "21", so I hold up two fingers on my left hand and one finger on my right. When looking at it from my viewpoint I'm showing "21", but from the table's viewpoint I'm showing number "12". And if the table can't hear me verbally say "21", they may give the foul to the wrong player, thus causing problems down the road...

[BryanV21]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

There isn't. There is a standard for 2-hand reporting, in response to this:

And I said I didn't know there was a high school standard. Thus making the prior comment about the confusion unnecessary or just wrong.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BryanV21

And I said I didn't know there was a high school standard. Thus making the prior comment about the confusion unnecessary or just wrong.

There is no 2-hand reporting in HS, so your musings about confusion was pointless. If HS goes to 2-hand reporting, there is already a standard they will adopt. If someone is going renegade and doing 2-hand reporting in HS games, there is still a standard way of doing 2-hand reporting. Not sure why you can't grasp that.

[BryanV21]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

There is no 2-hand reporting in HS, so your musings about confusion was pointless. If HS goes to 2-hand reporting, there is already a standard they will adopt. If someone is going renegade and doing 2-hand reporting in HS games, there is still a standard way of doing 2-hand reporting. Not sure why you can't grasp that.

So there "is no 2-hand reporting in HS", but some renegade officials may be doing it anyway, but that's okay because "there is still a standard way of doing 2-hand reporting".

Really? There is no standard high school mechanic... but actually there is? Oh! I see, because that's the way they do it in college, so of course a renegade official will do it the collegiate way, and of course the table personnel will know the college way and totally get it right.

And you don't see any confusion happening? None at all?

Look... my comment had to do with the NF not having a standard way of reporting, and giving an example of what could potentially happen. I went on to point out that confusion was more likely at the high school level due to poor table personnel, and could have gone on about the many poor high school officials (we all know some).

The response made it seem like some places do use 2-handed mechanics, and they are standardized (by an association, league, or whatever), hence me saying I was wrong. I actually backed off my original response, and took back what I said saying I was wrong.

And apparently I'm the problem? Now that's confusing.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BryanV21

So there "is no 2-hand reporting in HS", but some renegade officials may be doing it anyway, but that's okay because "there is still a standard way of doing 2-hand reporting".

Really? There is no standard high school mechanic... but actually there is? Oh! I see, because that's the way they do it in college, so of course a renegade official will do it the collegiate way, and of course the table personnel will know the college way and totally get it right.

And you don't see any confusion happening? None at all?

Look... my comment had to do with the NF not having a standard way of reporting, and giving an example of what could potentially happen. I went on to point out that confusion was more likely at the high school level due to poor table personnel, and could have gone on about the many poor high school officials (we all know some).

The response made it seem like some places do use 2-handed mechanics, and they are standardized (by an association, league, or whatever), hence me saying I was wrong. I actually backed off my original response, and took back what I said saying I was wrong.

And apparently I'm the problem? Now that's confusing.

I do not know why you would be taking this all so personal. For one the NF does not have any such mechanic for reporting fouls other than using one hand. The other levels use two-hand reporting, not the NF at this time. So if they decide to adopt that mechanic, I am sure they would say how it is to be done or not done. Not many options of course, but I would not put it past the NF to have a different standard. Now if your state as adopted this method already, then they might just stick with that standard. But all that has been said and it is true, the NF has not adopted this method, no more than they have told us that we are to report fouls outside of the reporting area, but official do this all the time outside of the NF stated mechanics.

Peace

[johnny d]

You are making this way too complicated. It is standard practice to read and write from left to right. The reporting official has no need to read or write the numbers, but the person at the table does, therefore, the hands are used so that the person reading the number gets it in the normal, standard practice of reading and writing. This is not a basketball issue. Under what circumstances would it make any sense at all for the order of the numbers be reversed so that the person actually reading them has to do something the exact opposite of what he does any other time he is reading a number?

Originally Posted by BryanV21

So there "is no 2-hand reporting in HS", but some renegade officials may be doing it anyway, but that's okay because "there is still a standard way of doing 2-hand reporting".

Really? There is no standard high school mechanic... but actually there is? Oh! I see, because that's the way they do it in college, so of course a renegade official will do it the collegiate way, and of course the table personnel will know the college way and totally get it right.

And you don't see any confusion happening? None at all?

Look... my comment had to do with the NF not having a standard way of reporting, and giving an example of what could potentially happen. I went on to point out that confusion was more likely at the high school level due to poor table personnel, and could have gone on about the many poor high school officials (we all know some).

The response made it seem like some places do use 2-handed mechanics, and they are standardized (by an association, league, or whatever), hence me saying I was wrong. I actually backed off my original response, and took back what I said saying I was wrong.

And apparently I'm the problem? Now that's confusing.