Just putting this one out there...

JugglingReferee · #1 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 10:37am

Game goes into OT.... say 48 to 48 at the end of regulation.

During the OT period (say 2:00 left), it is noticed that there are no 3 point awarded baskets for the B team. However, both officials (or all three) know without a doubt that B did in fact have one 3-pointer, and that it was scored in regulation time.

What do you do?

If team A was winning when the game was stopped to look at the error?

If team B was winning when the game was stopped to look at the error?

..Mike

Just putting this one out there...

Indy_Ref · #2 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 10:42am

You award the point and continue on with the OT.

That's an answer without looking it up in the book...so I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong!

JugglingReferee · #3 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 10:46am

My friend just e-mailed and he agrees with you.

If I ever had a vote on NF rule changes, I'd work to change this one. Too bad that OT started... team B won the game in regulation.

That's just my opinion.

..Mike

Indy_Ref · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 10:48am

Casebook, 2.11.10D!

Hawks Coach · #5 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 10:56am

Same situation, except overtime has not started. Team B short 1 point because 3 not credited. Team A had last possession and successfully went for 2 to tie, when they could have gone for a 3 if they knew that they needed it. Do you now award win to B?

Indy_Ref · #6 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 11:02am

Quote:

Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Same situation, except overtime has not started. Team B short 1 point because 3 not credited. Team A had last possession and successfully went for 2 to tie, when they could have gone for a 3 if they knew that they needed it. Do you now award win to B?

I think you have to award the victory to B...and I'm sure that is going to be real popular with the crowd!! Where is security to get me out of here!!!

BktBallRef · #7 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 11:29am

IndyRef is correct. In the coach's situation, since the OT has not begun, B would be awarded the win. But once the OT starts, you have to complete it.

JugglingRef, I believe you become a senior member after 100 posts. Big Woo!

pizanno · #8 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 04:31pm

always check the scoreboard after a 3 pointer!

Mark Dexter · #9 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 06:18pm

Quote:

Originally posted by JugglingReferee
My friend just e-mailed and he agrees with you.

If I ever had a vote on NF rule changes, I'd work to change this one. Too bad that OT started... team B won the game in regulation.

That's just my opinion.

..Mike

BigDave · #10 (**permalink**) Mon Dec 18, 2000, 09:10pm

great point! will keep us all out of trouble...

Brian Watson · #11 (**permalink**) Tue Dec 19, 2000, 01:52pm

I am trying to rationalize giving a team a win after the 4th quarter has ended. Does anyone have a casebook reference where you would end the game and not play the OT after discovering the error (I could not find one)? Since the fourth quarter is over, I think you need to play that OT period with the point correction technically becoming part of the OT. In essence, you would jump with Team B one point ahead.

T's become part of the OT, why wouldn't this?

Camron Rust · #12 (**permalink**) Tue Dec 19, 2000, 02:26pm

As Indy_Ref said, 2.11.10D.

It says "Once the ball becomes live in the overtime, the overtime will be played even though a subsequent correction of an eror or mistake changes the score."

The point of no return is the live ball for the overtime (or the approval of the score, if not a tie). This does seem a little contradictory in that a T after the buzzer for the 4th quarter, but the it is not. In the case of a T, the 4th quarter actually ended in a tie and a overtime is required. In the case of a mistake, the 4th quarter did not end in a tie, it just appeared so until it was corrected.

BktBallRef · #13 (**permalink**) Wed Dec 20, 2000, 12:57am

Quote:

Originally posted by Brian Watson
I am trying to rationalize giving a team a win after the 4th quarter has ended. Does anyone have a casebook reference where you would end the game and not play the OT after discovering the error (I could not find one)? Since the fourth quarter is over, I think you need to play that OT period with the point correction technically becoming part of the OT. In essence, you would jump with Team B one point ahead.

T's become part of the OT, why wouldn't this?

Because the game did not actually end in a tie. The rules say that a bookkeeping error can be corrected up until the final score is approved. There scorebook error must be corrected in order to determine who wins the game. As long as it's discovered prior to the beginning of the OT, you have to go with the book.

CLAY · #14 (**permalink**) Wed Dec 20, 2000, 01:05pm

THE RULE STATES THAT YOU CAN CORRECT THE SCORE AND CREDIT THE TEAM WITH THE THREE POINTS, BUT IF THE OVERTIME HAS STARTED AND THEN THE ERROR IS NOTICED AND CORRECTED YOU HAVE TO FINISH THE OT PERIOD.