My season done & question concerning scoreboard preferences

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

So you understand what I'm getting at, I'll quote my son:

"I'm not talking to you." - Li'l Snaqs (4 years old)

And, just so you understand (even given that you're from Iowa...):

"So? " - (Not so) Li'l M&M Guy (15 years old)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

And, just so you understand (even given that you're from Iowa...):

"So? " - (Not so) Li'l M&M Guy (15 years old)

On that note, I'm going to go home now. Play nice.
Oops, I misspelled "shut up."

[Mark Padgett]

Or as my son used to say when he was about 12 years old, "I don't have to say anything. It's in the Constitution."

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by justacoach

Congrats Chseagle for surviving the basketball season. Promise us you'll come back next November.

He's the official scorekeeper of the CHS Eagles baseball team. Check him out on the Baseball forum. His favorite situation is players batting out of order.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

Yet another item to add to BillyMac's List of Myths.

Not with a ten foot pole.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Not with a ten foot pole.

Boy, it's a good thing the metric system isn't prevalent in the land of Steady Habits, Billy.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by chseagle

At CHS, the scoreboard being used is an All-American Scoreboard that only shows the time, score, team fouls, & the most current player & how many fouls they have. On the All-American Scoreboard, we have to continually add to the total manually. The Daktronics scoreboards in use this past weekend, automatically added both the player fouls & team fouls in for us after pressing the corresponding buttons. Also the All-American Scoreboard in use at CHS has a time out timer that if it's used during the game, freezes the scoreboard until the timer reaches 0 nor are the warning horns automatically sounded. (For time outs & intermissions we have to use a stopwatch).The Daktronics scoreboards we used had the Time Out & Intermission timers as well as the time outs left listed on the scoreboard. The time out timer would count down & at 15 sec. left in the time out would automatically sound the warning horn. The same would happen at the end of the time-out. However, if the teams were ready to start play earlier we could cancel the time out timer easily & continue play.

Wouldn't this be more pertinent on the Scoreboard Forum?

[BillyMac]

I can't stand scoreboards that have the home team on the right side. We have just a few in our area and they drive me nuts.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

"I don't trust banks. I believe when the robots rise up ATMs will lead the charge." Dr. Sheldon Cooper

Very funny show. I normally don't like situation comedies. I'm more of an hour long police, lawyer, or medical drama kind of guy.

[Cobra]

Originally Posted by chseagle

I have a question for everyone. Concerning scoreboard setups, which do you prefer...a scoreboard that shows the most current player fouled with the tea fouls listed, or a scoreboard that has listed the 5 players (per team) in the game that has each players fouls & points listed as well as team fouls?

Why would anyone prefer the scoreboard which shows less information?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Cobra

Why would anyone prefer the scoreboard which shows less information?

Why would officials care about more information? Whatintheheck do we really care about things like which player has scored how many points?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Cobra

Why would anyone prefer the scoreboard which shows less information?

We've been told to ignore the possession arrow on the scoreboard. If there's a question about the alternating possession, we use the arrow at the table, the summary in the home scorebook, or try to remember what it should be (we have to keep alternating whistles in our pockets), but we never use the arrow on the scoreboard.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Cobra

Why would anyone prefer the scoreboard which shows less information?

More information, more chance for errors. And, somehow, some coach (or player or fan) will "blame" us if the information is incorrect, even though we don't put it there, verify it, or rely on it.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Why would officials care about more information? Whatintheheck do we really care about things like which player has scored how many points?

It amuses me during timeouts.

We had one of those fancy scoreboards Monday night and I noticed a few times that the person working the board was slow getting team fouls up on the board. The more geegaws they put on those boards, the harder it is for the (sometimes) already-challenged timer to do his/her job.

I worked the clock once. It's definitely not a non-skilled job if you actually plan on doing it right.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

We had one of those fancy scoreboards Monday night and I noticed a few times that the person working the board was slow getting team fouls up on the board. The more geegaws they put on those boards, the harder it is for the (sometimes) already-challenged timer to do his/her job.

I worked the clock once. It's definitely not a non-skilled job if you actually plan on doing it right.

And especially so if you're doing a game out in East Podunk and you've got a 15-year old girl armed with a blackberry working the scoreboard......