My season done & question concerning scoreboard preferences

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BBall_Junkie

East Podunk? Aren't they the Fightin' Nimrods? Also, JR there is no blackberry service in East Podunk. They use carrier pigeons which is far more distracting than the blackberries especially when they deficate on the scorebook...

Also, this is the dumbest discussion on an official forum ever. As an official I could give a rat's #$%@ what type of scoreboard hangs on the wall as long as it keeps the time. I am emailing Brad and demanding that he refund the 10 minutes of my life wasted reading this.

Really? The team fouls are unimportant to you? I don't believe that -- either that, or you're just used to not having that information always available.

And nobody forced you to read the entire thread, did they?

[Raymond]

Is there a spot on those fancy scoreboards to credit A2 with a basket he shoots into Team B's goal?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Is there a spot on those fancy scoreboards to credit A2 with a basket he shoots into Team B's goal?

No, but there's spot for footnotes to indicate what happened; so A2's grandkids can read about it in 50 years.

[All_Heart]

NEEDED: Scoreboard Operators Help!

We had trouble with the shot clock needing to be reset to a specific number last night. Lets say that the Game Clock = 1:45 and Shot Clock = 10. Ball is shot and misses ring BUT the shot clock was accidentally reset to 35. We had to:

1. [Set Shot Timer] [6] [ENTER]
2. Hit [Reset] on the Hand Held Shot Timer Remote
3. [Set Shot Timer] [35] [ENTER]

Step #3 is the part that we should not have to do. Having to do it this way really messed up the game b/c there was a quick shot as we were setting the shot clock to 6 and then when it hit the rim the shot clock operator hit the reset button but it went to 6 instead of 35!

On some scoreboards pushing [Set Shot Timer] once or twice gives you the option to reset the shot clock one time (ex: middle of game mistake) or it resets the shot clock permanently (ex: in between girls & boys). In this gym when you press [Set Shot Timer] twice it gives you the option to set the "Out of Bounds" timer, which of course we are not using!

If you know how to configure the game clock so that we can set the shot clock permanently vs temporarily please let me know.

This is exactly what the board looks like:

[BBall_Junkie]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Really? The team fouls are unimportant to you? I don't believe that -- either that, or you're just used to not having that information always available.

And nobody forced you to read the entire thread, did they?

Of course they are not unimportant and I work in a major metro are for HS and all my college games have it so it is almost always available on the scoreboard. However, if its not I manage through it by checking with the book when I sense we are getting close. Not that tough really.

My point was a discussion regarding the "type of scoreboard"

And no, nobody forced me to read it... It was an overly sarcastic way of saying, seriously we are talking about Daktronics scoreboards over All American scoreboards as officials?

Lighten up Rich its only basketball.

[Adam]

This thread may be a WOBW, but we did not waste it on scoreboards; this thing went off the rails quickly.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Really? The team fouls are unimportant to you? I don't believe that.

We have a few high schools in our area that do not show team fouls on the scoreboard. Just bonus lights. Man I hate working at those schools.

[ref2coach]

When I played in elementary school we played two different schools that had those old analog clocks. They had a red light that would change the white face to red when time expired.

[chseagle]

After reading the topic about the Boys' Shot Clock Question, I was thinking again about the difference between the scoreboard controls I am trained on now. The Daktronics scoreboard setup that was in use the past weekend would allow us to do time corrections to the tenths of a second. The All-American Scoreboard setup we have to set the time back to the next second up & watch the clock very closely to get it to the tenth of a second needed.

I realized that throughout the weekend, the coaches appreciated the idea of seeing both the player fouls & points scored.

[Adam]