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Piling on :)
There is a principle called The Law of Least Astonishment that helps me in cases like these described in this thread. When faced with a decision about something outside the norm, do the thing that will least astonish the participants.
IMO, if you make the OOB call in this unusual situation, you will have disrupted the natural flow of the game by making a call that nobody expected that penalizes a player/team who did not violate any obvious rule. That's pretty astonishing!
Even if you can back it up by the book, even if you can sell it, did the call make the game better? Did it penalize an illegally gained advantage? Or did it merely draw attention to the official, and his knowledge of the rules?
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Fri Sep 05, 2003, 02:55pm
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