Scorekeeper Forgets to Record Team Fouls

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Originally Posted by gslefeb

One trick is to have the score keepers "color in" the personal fouls at half. Especially, if a new keeper arrives at half. This way you can count the personal fouls in the 3 and 4th quarters to tie out to the running team total.

During halftime of middle school games (generally a student may be doing the book), I make sure each book agrees with the other. I color in the half time running score. I also color in the personal fouls.

For your case, I would start counting team fouls from that point on and not try any guessing as to how many you had called.

We draw a vertical line after any existing fouls. It's worked for over a decade. . . I also have the SK write down the arrow's direction.

For FIBA games, since fouls reset every quarter, I ask them to use a different stroke each quarter.

I believe in Iowa, especially the girls association, they are required to use different colored ink for the quarters. At first, when I did a game on Iowa side of the river, I thought it was bizarre that every scorekeeper at the girls' games were using those multicolored pens, but when I got an explanation once from an AD, it made a whole lot of sense.