What would you do?

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

"Exactly" is seeing something like 1.5 seconds on the clock. You and Camron are trying to say that you can pick(guess) some other time. Well, what time are you guys going to pick? 1.4 seconds? 1.3 seconds? 1.6 seconds? etc.,etc.?

I understand your concerns, JR, but it seems to me there are more choices than either a) seeing the exact time or b) randomly guessing, and especially when we're talking about tenths of a second. It goes by so fast that I don't see how any "exact" time is even visible by your definition. If I look up and see 0.x where x equals the speeding tenths, surely it's not unreasonable to just sort of choose between 5,6 and 7 or between 3,4 and 5. I mean, if I blinked, I wouldn't have seen any of them, but I know the horn hadn't yet sounded.

I agree with your position when we're talking about several whole seconds and trying to arrive at some sort of estimate based on how many seconds it takes to dribble this far and pass once, and which coach I'm less patient with tonight.

But in the sitch we're discussing, I think a reasonably close guess with a tolerance of a couple of tenths isn't really what the rules are trying to eliminate.