Scoring Basketball Games?

I had been an official "scorer" at our Junior Varsity game during high school. It's fun. Also, you can tell who's doing good work. There should be a stat for "taking charges" or "hustling on the floor for the ball", I think.

Try it.

 

I feel like people score basketball games all the time. When someone is going to get a triple double or score X amount of points, people know.

 

I used to do it when reffing basketball games with fouls simply because I don't want the officials to have to much of an effect on the game.

 

seems kind of an odd thing to do for recreation for a basketball game since it's so much more fast paced, but I suppose you could.

For baseball, it makes more since due to the speed and relatively low scoring.

 

Astros score keeping during a good inning.

1B
K
4-6-3 DP

 

Probably because there is a big illuminated sign that tells people all the stats in real-time.

I kept score in high school every now and then when we were stuck waiting on other games to finish before ours. My favorite time was when I noticed the other team neglected to put a player in the book and then tried to sub him in, which is an automatic technical. I pointed it out to the ref, he checked it out, took a few steps back, slammed down the ball, loudly blew his whistle and called a tech like someone just called him Tim Donaghy. He said "I've always wanted to do that".

 

I did it a few times while watching on t.v. years ago. It's something different to try. I got burnt out pretty quick with it though. I remember a lot of times having trouble being able to tell who fouls were called on and little stuff like that that commentators talk over and don't bother to mention. I get to so few games in person I'd much rather soak it in, besides, the scoreboard.

 

lol sounds about right