Table error correctable, 2 awarded as 3?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

No eye contact is made, the officials don't realize that they have made different calls, nor does the scorekeeper realize that two officials made two different calls, so the scorekeeper doesn't blow the horn for an immediate conference. Several possessions later, including a few dead ball periods, a coach realizes that the score isn't right because one team has either been credited with a three that they didn't deserve, or with a two that was a three. The coach calls timeout to discuss this situation, the time limit for a correctable error has long passed.

Now, answer me this. Is this a true correctable error situation, that cannot now be corrected due to the time limit? Or. Is this a bookkeeping mistake, because the scorekeeper looked at only one official, not two, and didn't realize that there were two differing calls?

This isn't a bookkeeping mistake. In both situations, one of the officials gave the wrong signal.....and in both situations the scorer went with that wrong signal. That makes it an official's mistake, not a bookkeeping mistake.

Any officials' mistakes like this falls under the correctable error section...rule 2-10-1(e).... and thus could only be corrected subject to the time limit parameters set out in the rule book in R2-10. Also see case book play 2.10.1SitF(a).

If the correct signal had been given by the official and the scorer then marked it down wrong, it would be a bookkeeping mistake instead of an official's mistake, and thus would be correctable up until the final score is approved. See rule 2-11-11 and case book play 2.10.1SitF(b).

To sum up:
- official's mistake---->correctable error with time limits.
- scorer's mistake---> can be corrected at any time until the game is over.