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Statistician's Digest: "Correctable Referee's Error Rule" & Statistics

"... Game under FIBA rules: Team A is on team fouls and the marker is up at the control table showing it. Player A1 commits the 5th. A team foul but instead of awarding the free throws to Team B, one of the officials gave possession to Team B who scored a basket. The referees on the table buzzed and points out the error of the missed free throws. May the officials give the basket as good and award the "forgotten" free-throws, because it is a "correctable official error" ? Which is the correct rule and, specially, the statistical register of this play ? ..."

In the year 2000 FIBA modified the Correctable Error rule, so that in this situation if a basket was scored, you can't award also the free throws: it would be penalizing the offending team twice.

Till the 1999 FIBA basketball season the official would have been correct in giving the basket as good and award the "forgotten" free-throws ( and actually also at the NCAA as they has not yet adopted this amendment ) .
But after the modification, meanwhile the error of the official is still within the correctable error time structure, the new rule (58.3.3) means that the missed free throws should have been ignored and the ball should have been awarded to Team B on the baseline ( with the possibility of running the baseline as after any successful basket ).

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