jjjjjjj wrote:
from .1 to .12 or .13, we're talking about 2 to 3 one-hundredths of a second! Ridiculous to make a distinction that small here. What physical calculation has demonstrated that as an absolute limit? Make it something clearly beyond the range and you won't penalize superior reaction times.
Yeah, it's totally arbitrary, so 0.099 should not have been a DQ today without further information.
The difficulty comes in creating a better standard.
We can't just make something "clearly beyond the range" like 0.08 because then people might actually start relying on anticipation like the ancient days.
Then again, 0.08 doesn't give much leeway for those guessers - they'd probably be screwed anyway. Any 0.08 is low enough that it'd have to be a freak reaction performance, terribly low odds of occurring even in world-class sprinters.
Maybe just put it at 0.085 and leave it at that. An extra 0.015 seconds shouldn't incentivize anyone to start anticipating anyway, not any decent let alone world class sprinters at least.