Officiate or keep score

[Kelvin green]

You shold never make stuff up so in that respect your partner is wrong....

I will have to take the DARK SIDE on this one, but good game management means knowing who is in foul trouble. You shold know who has fouls?

Why? I have had a couple of games where visitor book had 3, home book had only two ( assigned foul to wrng person) and it was corrected because my partner and I knew the fouls. It is tough to keep track mentally of all of them particularly if there are 30 or 40 fouls called. but you should have an idea.

If you know who just picked up their third foul, and it is a starter I might be more lenient in getting a sub in so that they dont pick up the fourth.

If I know they have four, the fifth foul will need to be a good call. I have no problem with fouling out a kid. (Ask the dozen or so kids so far this year) The fifth foul should not be ticky tacky, or a slight brush foul....