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Hometown Scoring How Many Assists Did Acie Law Really Have?  by
Ken Pomeroy   Sometimes, the most common statistics are taken
for granted as being the truth. It's assumed that the numbers we
use represent an accurate historical record but occasionally
they do not. Anyone who has ever tried to do a little
scorekeeping on their own has surely experienced the frustration
of trying to keep up with the action. Even the basics like
points and rebounds are not easy to keep accurately. Official
scorers in college basketball are no different, except that they
have to record much more than points and rebounds.  Though the
scoring operation at a Division I game is sophisticated, there
are still errors made. In large part, these are random errors.
Perhaps on rare occasions a