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Old Mon Jun 01, 2026, 10:55am
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Visual Field ...

Just got this from IAABO this morning.

Not a big deal but it's nice to see in writing what most of us have probably been doing forever.

It is important to note that this season, the NFHS is adding to the rulebook a definition of "visual field" as follows: The visual field of a player being screened includes the player’s forward vision and peripheral vision and extends horizontally from each ear. A screener who sets their screen in front of an imaginary line extending laterally from either ear of the player being screened is considered to be within that player’s visual field (NFHS 4-40-3 Note).

Reminds me of taking Drivers Education in high school.

Mr. Klemkowski, who was also my one thumbed wood shop teacher, had a device that measured peripheral vision.

We were always having contests to see who had the greatest peripheral vision.



If I recall, peripheral vision was often about 190 degrees.
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Old Tue Jun 02, 2026, 05:57pm
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There used to be a comment in one of the NFHS books stating that a screen set in front of or to the side of a player was within his visual field. Only screens from behind were blind or out of the visual field.
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Old Wed Jun 03, 2026, 10:39am
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There used to be a comment in one of the NFHS books stating that a screen set in front of or to the side of a player was within his visual field. Only screens from behind were blind or out of the visual field.
I guess that I will now have to keep a protractor on my back pocket.
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Old Wed Jun 03, 2026, 05:08pm
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I guess that I will now have to keep a protractor on my back pocket.
Slide Ruler in the other?
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Old Thu Jun 04, 2026, 08:49am
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Slide Ruler in the other?
No need for sines, cosines, tangents, logarithms, radians, multiplication, division, squares, square roots, cubes, or cube roots.

Gonna be tough to fit this in my back pocket.

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Old Tue Jun 09, 2026, 09:32pm
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No need for sines, cosines, tangents, logarithms, radians, multiplication, division, squares, square roots, cubes, or cube roots.

Gonna be tough to fit this in my back pocket.


I want one!!

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Old Wed Jun 10, 2026, 04:45pm
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I want one!!
You can't have mine.

My four foot Pickett Demonstration Model N4-ES Vector Type Log Log Dual Base Speed Rule, valued at over $400, is displayed hanging on the wall above my living room sofa.

When I meet hot single moms at my games, I ask them if they want to come over to my house after the game to see my really big slide rule.

Don't know why, but I often get slapped in the face.
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Old Sun Jul 12, 2026, 01:01am
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Probably for good measure.
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You can't have mine.

My four foot Pickett Demonstration Model N4-ES Vector Type Log Log Dual Base Speed Rule, valued at over $400, is displayed hanging on the wall above my living room sofa.

When I meet hot single moms at my games, I ask them if they want to come over to my house after the game to see my really big slide rule.

Don't know why, but I often get slapped in the face.

Billy:

If that slide rule is hanging over your living room coach then no wonder you have never remarried, 🤣!

And we Structural Engineers always asked if they wanted to see our Cantilever Beams!

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Old Fri Jul 24, 2026, 09:10am
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If that slide rule is hanging over your living room coach then no wonder you have never remarried.
My first wife loved my really big slide rule.
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Old Sat Jul 25, 2026, 04:37pm
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My first wife loved my really big slide rule.


Just like my wife loves my Cantilever Beam!

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