Bad Time for the Clock to Stop

[deecee]

you have done a great job of complicating a very simple task. We work with definitive knowledge and what we see is what's definitive. I would not trust anyone else's opinion except my partners in dealing with this. If neither of us have any clue we have bigger issues. Until replay is allowed this is what we work with.

Your hypothetical's are just pure hogwash. You haven't offered anything of substance except we "may" be off, which is 100% correct, and 100% useless. Then you offer a potential solution and what if, that we do not have the luxury of.

Instead of thinking what things "may" be go with what they are and what you know, that's our limitation. In this case the OP handled it correctly and that's what any official should do. Hypothesizing on the passage of time and what may or may not be adds complications that are not needed.

I would not ask the timer or anyone else if my partner tells me he saw X time and had Y count. I would do what the rules say and common sense dictates and I would subtract Y from X.

It's not any more complicated than that, and it needn't be.

For your information my 5/10 second counts are about +/- 1-2 tenths of a second. IMO, that's pretty good and I can live with that.

[Coach Bill]

Originally Posted by deecee

you have done a great job of complicating a very simple task. We work with definitive knowledge and what we see is what's definitive. I would not trust anyone else's opinion except my partners in dealing with this. If neither of us have any clue we have bigger issues. Until replay is allowed this is what we work with.

Your hypothetical's are just pure hogwash. You haven't offered anything of substance except we "may" be off, which is 100% correct, and 100% useless. Then you offer a potential solution and what if, that we do not have the luxury of.

Instead of thinking what things "may" be go with what they are and what you know, that's our limitation. In this case the OP handled it correctly and that's what any official should do. Hypothesizing on the passage of time and what may or may not be adds complications that are not needed.

I would not ask the timer or anyone else if my partner tells me he saw X time and had Y count. I would do what the rules say and common sense dictates and I would subtract Y from X.

It's not any more complicated than that, and it needn't be.

For your information my 5/10 second counts are about +/- 1-2 tenths of a second. IMO, that's pretty good and I can live with that.

My solution seems to have been lost on you. Because, I agree, 99% of the time, 0.3 is the correct time to go with. That's your best available information.

I agree, I think it's a stretch for 1.6 to be left. I'd bet they stopped it by mistake, started it, and stopped it on the whistle.

But, if the clock said 0.6, and you went up to the timer, and they said I didn't touch it until you blew your whistle, then I think you would be wrong to change it.