CE Scenario

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

... there are ways to try to prevent it from all sides.

Agree. Lots of things had to go wrong, from lots of stakeholders, for a correctable error to occur.

Originally Posted by JRutledge

But once it happens, we are stuck under the rules.

Agree 100%. We can't make up rules as we go along.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

But we have to live with it. It is what it is.

[isuphloyd]

I will often work the scoreboard for our freshmen games. I find myself asking after every foul to make sure the player total and team total match up. Sometimes there is 1 book, sometimes there is 2. It is my responsibility to hopefully not add any extra things to the officials plate.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by isuphloyd

I will often work the scoreboard for our freshmen games. I find myself asking after every foul to make sure the player total and team total match up. Sometimes there is 1 book, sometimes there is 2. It is my responsibility to hopefully not add any extra things to the officials plate.

Thank you for your due diligence.

Had a freshman game yesterday. Site director (school system's version of an athletic director) on the clock/scoreboard, and the regular varsity scorekeeper (who's been there decades, was the previous site director) on the (single) scorebook. Seventh heaven for me.

Non-officials can't possibly appreciate how important a good table crew is to having a good game.