Approval of Final Score

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Let me ask this:
At the expiration of time in the 4th quarter the scoreboard shows 59-59.
Prior to the jump ball to begin the extra period, the scorer counts up the points recorded for the 4th quarter in his book. He finds that Team A only has 58 points and that the scoreboard operator must have mistakenly posted an extra point sometime during the final quarter, and alerts the referee.

Team A had possession for the last 38 seconds of the 4th quarter and missed a try for goal at the horn.

Team A coach states that he would not have held the ball for the final 38 seconds of the quarter if he had known that his team was behind by one.

Make your ruling as the R.

That is easy....a correction can be made up to the time the officials leave the court OR the ball becomes live to start OT. Once the ball is live, the OT is played regardless of any correction.

I don't see how that applies to this case. In this case, the scorer made an error in indicating that score was not tied...we don't go over to verify that they are recording/reading the results correctly. The officials left the floor based on the scorer's validation of the final score not being tied. Realizing later that it wasn't tied is no different than realizing they didn't record something properly.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

That is easy....a correction can be made up to the time the officials leave the court OR the ball becomes live to start OT. Once the ball is live, the OT is played regardless of any correction.

True. So now which do YOU go with--the book or the board?

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

In this case, the scorer made an error in indicating that score was not tied...we don't go over to verify that they are recording/reading the results correctly. The officials left the floor based on the scorer's validation of the final score not being tied. Realizing later that it wasn't tied is no different than realizing they didn't record something properly.

All true again, and yet now I have presented you with the reverse situation. So again which do YOU go with--what the scorer and board said or what is written in the book?

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

True. So now which do YOU go with--the book or the board?

All true again, and yet now I have presented you with the reverse situation. So again which do YOU go with--what the scorer and board said or what is written in the book?

You're going with an entirely different situation. The point being discussed is jurisdiction and what the official has approved, not what they should go with. If I'm on the court still, I may go with either one after I investigate what the discrepancy is. Either the book or the board could be wrong. If I can't figure out the difference, it will be the book. But, again, that isn't what we're discussing.

When the officials leave the court approving a score, their jurisdiction ends. That much is clear. It doesn't matter if the score they approve is subsequently found to be inaccurate. It doesn't matter which score is official if they declare another score to be the final. In doing so, they have, even if they are wrong in their conclusion, effectively declared one to be correct and the other to be incorrect...which is something the referee has the authority to do. If the state wants to reopen the game and declare that it wasn't actually over they can certainly do so but from the perspective of the officials, the game is over as they approved it.

Just as you play OT once you start it even if the official book said the game was not tied...you don't go back and cancel OT. Likewise, once the officials leave the court, you don't go back and continue the game. Not sure why you're dragging this on. The game is over.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

You're going with an entirely different situation. The point being discussed is jurisdiction and what the official has approved, not what they should go with. If I'm on the court still, I may go with either one after I investigate what the discrepancy is. Either the book or the board could be wrong. If I can't figure out the difference, it will be the book. But, again, that isn't what we're discussing.

When the officials leave the court approving a score, their jurisdiction ends. That much is clear. It doesn't matter if the score they approve is subsequently found to be inaccurate. It doesn't matter which score is official if they declare another score to be the final. In doing so, they have, even if they are wrong in their conclusion, effectively declared one to be correct and the other to be incorrect...which is something the referee has the authority to do. If the state wants to reopen the game and declare that it wasn't actually over they can certainly do so but from the perspective of the officials, the game is over as they approved it.

Just as you play OT once you start it even if the official book said the game was not tied...you don't go back and cancel OT. Likewise, once the officials leave the court, you don't go back and continue the game. Not sure why you're dragging this on. The game is over.

I think we all agree the game is over.

The scenario is this: At the end of the game the scoreboard reads 60-59 and the official scorebook reads 59-59. The scorer has failed, for whatever reason, to make the officials aware of the discrepancy before they leave the visual confines of the court and thereby approving the final score.

Again, we all agree that, barring intervention from the appropriate state authority, the game is over.

As far as I can tell, you maintain the final score is 60-59.

I, NR and others maintain the final score is 59-59.

It appears to me that you think the officials are approving the score on the scoreboard (thus MD's stating you go back to the lights) rather than approving the running score in the official scorebook.

[OKREF]

On the overtime...Once you go to overtime you play the overtime, even if an error is found and corrected.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by OKREF

On the overtime...Once you go to overtime you play the overtime, even if an error is found and corrected.

Obviously, Camron and I both know that.

I constructed the scenario such that he had to pick between the numbers posted on the scoreboard or what was in the book BEFORE the extra period started.

I actually think that he made an articulate answer to my question while not selecting one or the other. He said that he would determine which was correct and go with that one since the officials had not left the visual confines. That makes sense to me and I have to give him that one.

I also agree with him that in the OP the game is over. I just disagree with him on which score is the one that has been approved.