How do they decide who gets to swim in which lane during a swim-off? Clearly if the one breathes to the right and is on the left hand side of the other, then that swimmer will be at an advantage.
Meet software will randomly seed them into lanes since they have the same "entry time".
At meets where there is potentially "something big at stake" and I have a potential personal interest in the competition, I will usually setup a double-blind lot and have someone else make a selection. For example, I run a lot of college conference championship meets where my alma mater is in the meet. So that there is no chance anyone could say I fudged the computer to get an advantage (which is technically easy to do), I'll have someone else pull names and lanes out of a hat blindly, witnessed by a third person.
-Rick
Meet software will randomly seed them into lanes since they have the same "entry time".
At meets where there is potentially "something big at stake" and I have a potential personal interest in the competition, I will usually setup a double-blind lot and have someone else make a selection. For example, I run a lot of college conference championship meets where my alma mater is in the meet. So that there is no chance anyone could say I fudged the computer to get an advantage (which is technically easy to do), I'll have someone else pull names and lanes out of a hat blindly, witnessed by a third person.
-Rick
