Scoreboard bonus light timing

[dfscott]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

From an official's standpoint, I'd rather have it on after the 6th foul. Of course, if the numbe of fouls is listed, I never look at the light.

And, a "heads up" from the scorer is always nice "next one will be bonus for white"

FWIW, our scoreboard does show the number of fouls and I always make sure to give them a heads-up after 6 (and 9).

Thanks for the comments. I'll start turning it on at 6. We don't have a double-bonus light, but once they hit ten fouls (happens very rarely), I have them just leave the light on but have the number of fouls set to "0" (the number of fouls is only a single-digit)

As an aside, our league is very new (only the 2nd year) and most of our refs and scorers are still learning, so I'm trying to get everyone trained right the first time. The possession arrow is the thing that confuses most of them -- they tend to forget that the inbound pass at the beginning of the quarter is actually a jump ball and it needs to be swapped.

Funny story: I had person that I thought had it down well enough that I could afford to run to the bathroom. But when I came back, the possession arrow was flipping back and forth wildly! It turns out they thought the arrow was supposed to point to whoever had possession of the ball at that moment!