its for the team because it gives information about how the eod played out, information about the people that voted el barto, information about el bartos reads

if he had of shot off wagon and hit a vt, the info gained would be worth far less
No. You know the saying "two birds with one stone?" If there's valuable information to be obtained from flips, then you force a secondary flip through your vig and then lynch the primary candidate who's lined up anyway. This strategy is the most appropriate, all the more so when it's the first night.