Couple questions from Exam part 1

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

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.

So you're saying if the visiting scorer marks a field goal as a 2 instead of a 3, when the books are compared and the mistake is discovered, the referee should be notified before making a correction in the visitor's book?
Not in the real world.

My take here is that the referee, without question, is the final authority, but his approval is not necessary to correct every little mistake.