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Old Sun Nov 05, 2017, 11:27am
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Your games don't have a scorer for the visiting team sitting at the table? That surprises me.
Many times the only people sitting at the tables which are often small are the timer, scorer the announcer. Many tables are not big enough to have the anyone else sitting there in many cases. Even at the big schools with the better courts and facilities. Both home and visiting teams have someone keeping track of recording of the game with someone on their own bench. It almost never causes an issue because if something is wrong, they inform us and we correct it. Most home books have integrity and if they make a mistake they correct it and it almost never is an issue even during tournaments where there is not "home book" present, the official book is a person assigned by the tournament. The problems I have run into were because they were sitting next to each other and arguing over every detail or what happens. Usually, in my experience, the issue is what is on the scoreboard and what actually happened. Almost never is there a big discrepancy in scorebooks that is brought to our attention. Unless you have a tournament or some big table, the scorebook people sit on the bench for the team or they sit behind the bench. Almost never comes up as an issue anywhere at least in my experience. And this was before and after the rule was changed to have both books were "required" to sit at the table.

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Old Sun Nov 05, 2017, 11:52am
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And this was before and after the rule was changed to have both books were "required" to sit at the table.
I don't believe the NFHS "requires" the visiting scorer to sit at the table. It might be implied that it's necessary because the scorer is supposed to "compare records with the visiting scorer...", but I don't think anything in the rules would support "forcing" the visiting scorer to sit at the table.

However, if the visiting scorer sits on or directly behind the team bench, I'm likely treating him/her as bench personnel with respect to penalizing unsporting behavior.
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Old Sun Nov 05, 2017, 12:34pm
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I don't believe the NFHS "requires" the visiting scorer to sit at the table. It might be implied that it's necessary because the scorer is supposed to "compare records with the visiting scorer...", but I don't think anything in the rules would support "forcing" the visiting scorer to sit at the table.

However, if the visiting scorer sits on or directly behind the team bench, I'm likely treating him/her as bench personnel with respect to penalizing unsporting behavior.
I would treat them as such if they are sitting on the bench. But if they are not sitting at the scorer's table, then I am not going around trying to penalize them for their behavior and give Ts as a result. I will just have them removed if it is that bad and it would have to get really bad.

I do not think the rule in question gives us any authority to penalize the person that is the visiting team book any more than I would penalize the home book if they acted up and sitting clearly at the table.

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Old Sun Nov 05, 2017, 12:51pm
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Bench Personnel ...

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... if the visiting scorer sits on or directly behind the team bench, I'm likely treating him/her as bench personnel with respect to penalizing unsporting behavior.
Agree.

Rule 4-34-2: Bench personnel are all individuals who are part of or affiliated with a team, including, but not limited to: substitutes, coaches, managers(s) and statisticians(s).

If the visiting scorer is at the team bench, they're bench personnel, under the control, or authority, of the head coach, and will be subject to all rules regarding bench personnel. No free passes because they have a book and a pencil.

If the visiting scorer is at the table, they're part of the officiating team, under the control, or authority, of the referee. They are not bench personnel, and do not fall under the rules regarding bench personnel, but if they misbehave, they can be dealt with:

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... if the official scorer, or the official timekeeper, or the visiting scorekeeper, is giving me a problem (acting as a fan for team, not paying attention, not doing their job correctly, etc.), I have no problem asking game management to replace any, or all of them ... In a school game with adult table personnel, I may pause before replacing them, and will certainly check with my partner, but I would certainly consider replacing them, maybe not charging any type of technical bench personnel foul, but certainly replacing them; and they can go wherever they want, including their team bench, just not at the table as a member of the officiating team.
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Old Sun Nov 05, 2017, 11:52am
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At the End of the Day...

OK, though the thread took a turn somewhat away from the original question, it looks like we've arrived at a consensus:
Even though Rule 4-34-2 says, "Bench personnel are all individuals who are part of or affiliated with a team, including, but not limited to: substitutes, coaches, managers(s) and statisticians(s)...", if the behavior of a visiting team scorer seated at the table along with the timer and official scorer needs to be addressed, that does not merit a warning or a technical to the coach under new rule 4-48.
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