[POLL] Lagging: First or Second?

Lagging for the break?

  • First

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • Second

    Votes: 5 14.3%

  • Doesn't matter

    Votes: 28 80.0%
  • Total voters
    35
BeiberLvr

BeiberLvr

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This poll might stir up some controversy. Friendships may be lost.

When lagging for the first break, do you go first or wait for your opponent to lag?

I don't know if there are any statistics, but I've always thought the second player to lag has a slight advantage.
 
I don't really see how it matters, it's not like you can stand there and watch the whole thing first.

Of course the rules specify both lag at the time, I can only imagine that if your watching your opponent out of the corner of your eye to see who is going to go when....you've just given any "advantage" you think you might had......away. ;)

So, no, I doubt any friendships will be lost over this one. :P
 
I voted that it doesn't matter....but I think that someone waiting to see how I've done
actually gives me an edge.
I'm trying to feel how to roll the ball a bit over 15 feet.....if he's watching me instead of
doing the same thing, I don't like his chances.

I don't mind seeing some larceny in my opponent .....
....who wants to play somebody who acts like a champion?
 
I'm pretty sure the lag rules state that you have to lag at more or less the same time, you can't wait till the other one hits then wait a few till you see where the ball ends up. You can be first or second but not by more than a few beats, if the other first person's ball hits the first rail or at most bounces a foot or so back down before the second one even hits his, I would view this as a bad lag and I'd say to try again. I'd give a bit of a leeway to someone that just takes a bit more time to judge the hit, but anything that looks like just waiting for the result of the first hit would be a re-do lag to me.
 
This reminds me of a time when I was waiting between matches at a tournament. I sat down near one of the other tables where a match was about to start right as the second player arrived at the table. The guy pulls out a coin to flip for the break (as everyone else in the tournament was) and the player that was there waiting tells him, dead seriously, "No, I'd rather lag. A coin flip is only 50/50." What a way to set the tone for a match. I don't think either one of them said a word from then on.
 
You could get an advantage going second, esp if your opponent miss hits his terribly.

I don't concern myself with all that, and actually try to be first, or at the same time, just so I'm focused on what I'm doing. And because that's what you're supposed to do, too...
 
justadub said:
You could get an advantage going second, esp if your opponent miss hits his terribly.

I don't concern myself with all that, and actually try to be first, or at the same time, just so I'm focused on what I'm doing. And because that's what you're supposed to do, too...
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Yup, I agree. People get so wrapped up in what their opponent is doing, that they forget to focus on the thing they are striving to achieve in the first place -- and that's trying to pin the cue ball to the cushion.

Just focus on that, and FORGET about your opponent. Just like when you have control of the table, you should be focusing on the table, and not on your opponent. ;)

-Sean <-- doesn't subscribe to "Ricochet Rabbit" redirects of his attention
 
I think I've read somewhere that statistics says second lagger wins more often. But I don't think that matters really.
All I know is that the one who shoots second must hit the cueball before his opponent's cueball makes contact with foot rail. Otherwise the shooter loses the lag straight away. And I've seen this happen way too often on various local tournaments, but hardly anybody cares. Probably they just don't know this rule good enough.
 
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