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[assignmentmaker]

Originally posted by blindzebra

Care to explain how you can do that when there was 0.006 on the clock when the official blew his whistle, as per the very first post on this thread? That info wasn't missing at all.

From the first post- "She crosses the division line with 0.6 seconds on the clock and the coach immediately asks for a time-out. Since the official was looking for the request, he blows the whistle right away". Iow, the whistle was blown with 0.6 seconds on the clock. I don't care if the official was looking at the clock or not when he blew the whistle either with 0.6 seconds left.
1) If the official was looking at the clock, the timer is allowed 1 second lag time as per case book play 5.10.1SitD(b).
2) If the official isn't looking at the clock, then as per your cite-5.10.1SitA-COMMENT- "One second or the 'reaction' time is interpreted to have elapsed from the time the signal was made until the official glanced at the clock." Take 1 second reaction time away from 0.6 of a second on the clock when the whistle blew and what do you have? No time on the clock! That one second "reaction" time to look at the clock means that the clock runs out in this case also.

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That means one second or whatever the reaction time is, not a literal 1 second, and you know it.

The official needs definite knowledge of 1 second lag time for us to allow a full second.

It still comes down to this:

Official looking at clock at whistle, lag time up to 1 second.

Official not looking, lag time is the interval between whistle and look.

Stop spinning it JR.


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Perhaps all errors in stopping the clock (note: starting may not be parallel) can be divided into the two classes BZ has been talking about, based on whether or not the Official is or is not looking at the clock at the moment the whistle sounds?

In cases where the official is NOT looking at the clock when he or she blows the whistle, however long it actually takes to look at and read the clock is to be presumed to have been at least 1-second; thus any 'timer's lag time' has been accounted for by incorporation, and what the official sees is how much time is left. (5.10.1B)

In cases where the official is looking at the clock when he or she blows the whistle (5.10.1D), let's call the time on the clock at the whistle T. If the timer stops the clock at T, fine. If at T minus 1-second, go with that, allowing for 'Timer's Lag Time'. However, if the difference between what the official sees and what ends up on the clock is greater than T minus 1-second, whether or not there was 'timer's lag time' is presumed to be unknowable: put the full T back on the clock.