Originally Posted by Nevadaref (Post 547883)

Both of you should take a look at 2-11-11.

If a scoring mistake is made, not as a result of any decision by the officials on the court, but solely due to the scorer making a mistake, this does not qualify as a correctable error. It is simply a bookkeeping mistake.

Originally Posted by w_sohl (Post 547996)

I think any of the officials can bring it to the attention of the referee, however the final word is the referee's

Originally Posted by Nevadaref (Post 547883)

Both of you should take a look at 2-11-11.

If a scoring mistake is made, not as a result of any decision by the officials on the court, but solely due to the scorer making a mistake, this does not qualify as a correctable error. It is simply a bookkeeping mistake.

Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 548008)

Are you saying the statement was true?

Originally Posted by Nevadaref (Post 548100)

Yes.

Originally Posted by just another ref (Post 548127)

Scorers correct their own mistakes all the time, without even notifying the officials. 2-11-11 deals with a discrepancy between two books.

Originally Posted by just another ref (Post 548127)

In this situation there may not have even been a mistake anywhere except in the visitor's book, which is not the referee's concern.

Originally Posted by Snaqwells (Post 548110)

Okay, I'm in. Based on what?

Originally Posted by jritchie (Post 548173)

Finally my books!!
Okay, I understand what you guys are talking about on the scoring and scorer issues, it says the REFEREE makes the final decision. But this question was talking about correctable errors and in 2-10-1 it says: OFFICIALS may correct an error.......so I have to take that as too question #11, since it's under the section on correctable errors on the test, as FALSE! If it was under the scoring section, we would have to say True, but since it is talking about correctable errors, shouldn't this question be false????

Originally Posted by Nevadaref (Post 548157)

While it may be true that scorers do that, it is not proper practice. They should notify the referee before making any changes to the books because the books are the official record of what happened in the game. (And I'm not talking about the simple "oops I just wrote that on the wrong side sorry...erase...erase...I'll put in where it belongs." I'm talking about one scorer seeing the Trail official signal a three point goal and the other who was blowing his nose didn't and wrote down two points. Three minutes later when they add up the totals at the end of the quarter and one book doesn't match the other book or the scoreboard, that scorer should not make a correction to his book on his own without telling the referee.) The reason that there are supposed to be two books is to provide a check on the first and ensure that simple errors do not occur. They are to contain the same information.



Totally wrong! The books are to match, and for that very reason the referee should be concerned with what is in the visiting book.

As 2-11-11 clearly says, the official scorer is to "[c]ompare records with the visiting scorer after each goal, each foul, each charged time-out, and end of each quarter and extra period, notifying the referee at once of any discrepancy."

The referee is to rectify the discrepancy by finding the error, applying his definite knowledge to resolve the difference, or accepting the record of the official book.

Originally Posted by bob jenkins (Post 548179)

2) You originally wrote that the question was, "11. only the REFEREE is authorized to correct a scoring mistake" In fact, the question is, "Only the referee is authorized to correct the erroneous awarding of a score." That's a completely different question, and one that is easily answered in the book (2-10-1).