Mental Error

[cmathews]

I agree with JR to treat it as a bookeeping issue. However it is NOT a bookeeping issue, it is an officials error. Bookeeping issue would be reporting the foul on A1 and the bookeeper giving it to B1.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by cmathews

I agree with JR to treat it as a bookeeping issue. However it is NOT a bookeeping issue, it is an officials error. Bookeeping issue would be reporting the foul on A1 and the bookeeper giving it to B1.

By definition, correctable errors are errors made by the floor officials and there is a defined time period as to when a correctable error can be corrected. In the situation being discussed, all we have is a mistake by one of the floor officials which can be corrected as per JR's post (Post #5). The question that needs to be addressed is whether correcting the scorebook resulted in failure to award a merited free throw and if it did was the correctable error discovered in the defined time period.

MTD, Sr.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

By definition, correctable errors are errors made by the floor officials and there is a defined time period as to when a correctable error can be corrected. In the situation being discussed, all we have is a mistake by one of the floor officials which can be corrected as per JR's post (Post #5). The question that needs to be addressed is whether correcting the scorebook resulted in failure to award a merited free throw and if it did was the correctable error discovered in the defined time period.

MTD, Sr.

Right - the foul can be changed at any point when the error is discovered. What cannot be changed after the "correctable error" time period is any free throw/scoring play resulting from that error.

[FishinRef]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

Right - the foul can be changed at any point when the error is discovered. What cannot be changed after the "correctable error" time period is any free throw/scoring play resulting from that error.

Absolutely Correct!!!!