Correctable errors

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

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.

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.