If instant replay ushered in a new era in sports like football, basketball and baseball, then fully automatic timing, or FAT systems, are doing the same in South Dakota high school track and field. If the proposal passes and is adopted by the athletic directors, only FAT times will be accepted for state qualifying purposes beginning next season. It’s all in the name of fairness, said Ipswich head coach Todd Thorson, who is also a member of the track and field advisory committee. “Anyone who’s ever worked a meet, you know there’s human error,” he said.  Maybe someone missed the gun by half a second. Or their stopwatch malfunctioned.  Or maybe it didn’t, but the human eye seeing and the human finger pressing the stopwatch at the exact same time a different human body crosses an inch-wide stripe on the ground is pretty hard to do. FAT systems eliminate all that, Thorson said. The system works by taking the exact moment the starting gun went off a