There is a better reason to go to four officials. Current historical data indicates that officials are missing or incorrectly calling rules violations 25% of the time. The largest errors are contact files, dominated by fouls during rebounding. Two Leads (on the endline) and Two Trail officials provides excellent geometry to attain near perfect vision (open angle) for all activities in the half-court offense. A restructuring of 3 person could raise visibility potential to ~92%, but visual coverage inexcess of the 92% requires 4.
There is a better reason to go to four officials. Current historical data indicates that officials are missing or incorrectly calling rules violations 25% of the time. The largest errors are contact files, dominated by fouls during rebounding. Two Leads (on the endline) and Two Trail officials provides excellent geometry to attain near perfect vision (open angle) for all activities in the half-court offense. A restructuring of 3 person could raise visibility potential to ~92%, but visual coverage inexcess of the 92% requires 4.
8/10