An interesting night

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

I think I've dropped a coin maybe 5 times in 12 years of soccer (probably on the order of 600-700 tosses). On the other hand, I think coins which hit the ground are ambiguous about a quarter of the time.

YMWV

I've never had to retoss a coin.

I have watched referees toss coins and then they flip them over onto their wrist after catching them. I just think that looks terrible. It was heads when he caught it, now it's tails as he flips it one last time. I get that the method is consistent and not nefarious in any way, but I think it looks like crap.

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by Rich

I've never had to retoss a coin.

I have watched referees toss coins and then they flip them over onto their wrist after catching them. I just think that looks terrible. It was heads when he caught it, now it's tails as he flips it one last time. I get that the method is consistent and not nefarious in any way, but I think it looks like crap.

Which is why I catch with both hands, then reveal. (It's also easier to catch with two hands than one!) I don't know that I've seen a hit the ground retossed, but I have seen ones that I thought were on edge declared one side or the other where I thought they should have been tossed again.