Definite Knowledge?

[frezer11]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Oooh. I read the quote by the woman who said, "definitely less than a second," and I thought, "sounds like the claim of a biased homer." But then I watched the video and it was definitely less than a second. Probably not much more than a half a second, actually. Hard to believe they took this one away. Ouch.

That said, the timer shares a lot of the blame. Probably a home fan who got caught up in the moment. Gotta keep it serious and professional for all 32 minutes, not just 31:59.

I once worked in a gym that did not have the ability to show tenths of a second on the scoreboard, but the control box at the table had a digital reading that DID show it. We never had an issue, but as we were talking about it, we decided that since they were not visibly displayed on the scoreboard, we shouldn't be able to use them. For example, if there were 0.2 seconds left on the clock, the scoreboard would show 0:01. A shot should not be allowed under 0.3, but you don't have that definite knowledge, then that rule shouldn't apply.

So here's the question, can you use the knowledge of less than 0.3 on the scorekeeper's digital readout that is NOT on the gym's scoreboard to make a decision?