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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
why should the rule apply to ANY other time during the game, rather than very specifically during the last 5 seconds of the game, if time isn't gonna run out during any other time?
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Because if you want to use such a rule, you've got to pick
some time at which the provision kicks in. Since it would probably be tough to administer
only in the last 5 seconds, and would make the game too long if you used it through the entire game, you have to pick some other arbitrary time. The rulesmakers picked 1 minute.
Why should the mercy rule kick in at 30 points instead of 32? Same thing. Have to pick some arbitrary number and that one doesn't seem unreasonable. :double shrug:
Sun Jan 22, 2006, 02:27pm
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