There was only one scorer...no other book to double check. I don't remember now how he discovered the error, but he did. Unless you plan on keeping the book entirely on your own while running down the floor, you'll never be able to prevent all bookkeeping errors....and even if you did keep the book, you'd still miss something somewhere.

So after you stopped the game to determine exactly what the foul count was he discovered an error and you don't know how. But you decided he had the last word.

Great.

:rolleyes:

I hope you're not getting paid for these games if you don't take them seriously enough to be concerned.

No, you misunderstood me. I said I do not remember the details of the scorebook error. This was 10+ years ago. Forgive me for not remembering all the details of the error. The point remains...you'll never be able to prevent all bookkeeping errors.

That's where we disagree.

My point remains that you should always be able to prevent correctable errors.

Further, you should never go to the table to resolve a scorekeeper's error and walk away without a final, definitive answer.

How can you absolutely, 100%, guarantee that that answer will be correct?

You can't. Even if the book fully crosschecks and everything adds up, it's possible that is is still wrong. Perhaps they recorded a foul on the wrong player/team...in the first minute of the game. Unless you remember every thing that happens on the floor (from beginning to end), there will be some errors that you can't fix.

Bear in mind that I am more than willing to stop and analyze the book if need be. I've taken several minutes on occassion to straighten out a poorly kept book to determine if we were in the bonus or not, if a player really has 5 fouls or not, what the score should be. But, when it all looks in order and adds up, you may not be able to find the error so easily.

Camron, this really makes no sense.

How is it that you do not have the ability to remember and have definite knowledge of every single foul call in the game yet you easily give that ability to the scorer? Don't tell me because the scorer is recording everything, because you already went through everything that was recorded and didn't find anything wrong. And to convince yourself (hopefully) you conferred with your partner - "hey pard, book sez 9, I would swear we're at 10" - and finally everyone agreed the book had it right. So whatever new information the scorer has is not based on something he recorded - IOW neither you nor he has definite knowledge to change the book. Because if you did, you would have changed it the first time.

So, unless the scorer pulls out a slip of paper that says "Note to self: I gave the wrong team a foul in the first minute of the game" I'm not changing a thing.