All right, so far we've talked about correcting no-calls, correcting bad calls, and finding calls that can't be corrected at all.

Hey, it ought to be...

The most obvious Fixable Mistake (FM) is anything that the score table or book person does wrong. The rulebook says that any book error can be corrected if the ref has definite knowledge that a mistake was made and knows how to make it right.

 But that only applies to errors by the book person, not to the referee. (Remember that the scoreboard is merely a reflection of the score book.) For example, if you realize near the end of the second quarter that you awarded A1 a one-and-one instead of two shots for a foul back in the first quarter, that's not a book error, it's a ref error and falls under 2.10, which we'll get to eventually.

However, if you gave two shots, but the book person thought it was a one and one and didn't see the second shot fall, you may award that point, providing you're sure the book person really did miss seeing that shot.

That kind of mistake can be troublesome late in the game. It can't be corrected unless the ref has certain knowledge of exactly what went wrong and how to correct it. So be sure you're keeping track of the table throughout the game and fix those mistakes quickly.

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