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<blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 986372" data-attributes="member: 17987"><p>Yeah, I've seen that study before and it's definitely interesting if nothing else but I'm not sure it's entirely accurate for it to take that data and use it as evidence of "bias". Perhaps it's semantics but I would contend that "bias" in this usage would/should refer to a team(s) getting a disproportionate number of wrong/missed/inaccurate calls for/against them. A team getting more penalties called against them than others does not necessarily mean a referee/referees are biased against them; it could just as easily mean that they simply committed more penalizable offenses and were (rightly?) called on them. In the same way, a team receiving less penalties called against them does not necessarily mean that they are benefitting from a favorable bias; it could just as well mean that they simply committed less penalizable offenses. </p><p></p><p>Of course this is also not to suggest that such bias doesn't exist but I think in this case the burden of proof here lies on the one trying to claim bias on the part of referee(s) for/against a particular team. </p><p></p><p>So in short it's interesting to look at but without being able to say which of those penalties should/shouldn't have been called I don't think it means a lot.</p><p></p><p>That said I don't have the link(s) on-hand at the moment but broadly speaking over the years (and across different sports) it has often been found that by-and-large officiating tends to favor home teams more favorably in general than any one specific team(s).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magooch, post: 986372, member: 17987"] Yeah, I've seen that study before and it's definitely interesting if nothing else but I'm not sure it's entirely accurate for it to take that data and use it as evidence of "bias". Perhaps it's semantics but I would contend that "bias" in this usage would/should refer to a team(s) getting a disproportionate number of wrong/missed/inaccurate calls for/against them. A team getting more penalties called against them than others does not necessarily mean a referee/referees are biased against them; it could just as easily mean that they simply committed more penalizable offenses and were (rightly?) called on them. In the same way, a team receiving less penalties called against them does not necessarily mean that they are benefitting from a favorable bias; it could just as well mean that they simply committed less penalizable offenses. Of course this is also not to suggest that such bias doesn't exist but I think in this case the burden of proof here lies on the one trying to claim bias on the part of referee(s) for/against a particular team. So in short it's interesting to look at but without being able to say which of those penalties should/shouldn't have been called I don't think it means a lot. That said I don't have the link(s) on-hand at the moment but broadly speaking over the years (and across different sports) it has often been found that by-and-large officiating tends to favor home teams more favorably in general than any one specific team(s). [/QUOTE]
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