Who said MS games were boring?

[SCalScoreKeeper]

Email the league coordinator with your story.If I were the league coordinator my first response would be to email the school and remind them of their obligation to provide qualified personnel for home contests. Also a rule modification might be in order here.It would say that until this school provides a scorer and book who will work from "The trench" all visiting scorekeepers are considered the official book when playing at this site. If more reports are received regarding this issue then offending school should be relieved from all hosting responsibilities for the remainder of this season and 1 full season! Maybe then their administration will get the message.

[BillyMac]

NFHS 2-11-11:The scorebook of the home team shall be the official book, unless the referee rules otherwise.

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

Email the league coordinator with your story.

SCal:

I did follow the chain of command and sent a memo to our district-level AD with both concerns from this game and the fact that they have had similar issues in the past when we compete in the same league. Will anything happen? Who knows. But someone in authority needs to know what's going on.

Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper

Also a rule modification might be in order here.It would say that until this school provides a scorer and book who will work from "The trench" all visiting scorekeepers are considered the official book when playing at this site.

On the rare occasion a home team has its players doing the home book, our coach will ask if I can be designated as official simply because he trusts an adult with 26 years experience over a minor. Such requests usually get granted with no problem.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

NFHS 2-11-11:The scorebook of the home team shall be the official book, unless the referee rules otherwise.

Don't forget this portion, however, concerning discrepancies:

"If the mistake cannot be found, the referee shall accept the record of the official scorebook, unless he/she has knowledge which permits him or her to decide otherwise." (emphasis mine).

The R in this game was totally unwilling to entertain any other information. In his eyes, the home scorebook was infallible and he was unwilling to see if this discrepancy could be resolved.

[Forksref]

The "home" book better be at the scorer's table or in some cases on the home bench, otherwise I am not recognizing it.

[Indianaref]

Did you record the time of each requested time-out? Not saying it would have change anything, but it would have made you look more credible.

[Stat-Man]

Originally Posted by Indianaref

Did you record the time of each requested time-out? Not saying it would have change anything, but it would have made you look more credible.

Yes, I do. With the scoresheets I use, I will put the time above the timeout number I slash out and the period below. Something like this (I had to use . to represent whitespace between symbols):

215 005
./...\
.2...3

This would be what I'd have to record time outs taken with 2:15 remaining in period 2 and 5 seconds left in period 3 of a four quarter game.

I also use different pen colors for each period and switch the direction of the hash marks ( / & \ ) for each half so I can reconstruct a game from start to finish if needed.

I did start to read off the times taken I had for the time outs I had in question, but it was all for naught.