pran, on 2019-March-18, 01:49, said:
I suspect the purpose of Law 40B2{a}{v} is to legalize regulations protecting inexperienced players.
The problem is that there is (usually) no distinction between how to handle accidental and deliberate misbids respectively (when the offender discovers his misbid too late for Law 25A to apply).
I think the assumption is that misbids are more random, they're not more likely to be perpetrated against inexperienced players as tactical maneuvers.
The paradoxical thing about psyching against inexperienced players is that you generally don't need to -- they'll often hand you good results all by themselves. Most discussions about "when to psych" advise against doing it against beginners -- it leaves them with a bad feeling, and wasn't necessary in the first place. You should do it to try to get an edge against better players -- they'll never expect it from players they consider weaker than themselves.
And if we consider players to be generally honest, it's easy to distinguish misbids from psyches -- just ask the player. But this is also why the White Book recommends recording misbids along with psyches, so we can recognize a pattern. If someone has a habit of similar misbids that are consistent with tactical psyches, we may question their honesty when explaining what happened.