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Don't know if you pulled the trigger too quickly... when did you pull the trigger?
If you did so at or near the apex of the flight of the ball, you should have had a decent chance at judging that the slow piece of whatever and the man who didn't know what this glove was for were not going to get to this ball. If, at the apex of the ball, you thought they were going to catch it, then even though they didn't get it, you probably called it right.
If you called it before that, then yeah - you probably pulled the trigger too early.
Remember that IFF is in place to PROTECT the offense from the purposeful drop and double play. And to answer your other question, the abilities of the actual players on the field and their positions on the field DOES factor into the decision of "ordinary effort"
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