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Stats Prove Refs Have Bias
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:14 am
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:14 am
Took this off another board. Thought I would share.
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"This is an incestuous situation," says Rhett Brymer, a business management professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He spent more than a year parsing almost 39,000 fouls called in games involving NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the 2012-2015 seasons. His research finds "ample evidence of biases among conference officials," including "conference officials showing partiality towards teams with the highest potential to generate revenue for their conference."
Brymer's data suggest something more insidious. Across the 3,000-odd regular-season and bowl games he studied, a bit less than half of the fouls called were what he terms "discretionary"holding, pass interference, unsportsmanlike conduct, and personal fouls like roughing the passer. Refs were on average 10 percent less likely to throw discretionary flags on teams that enjoy both strong playoff prospects and winning traditions. Brymer calls these teams "protected flagships."
"Protected flagships in the Big Ten did especially well with officials, the research shows. Ohio State, the conference's most competitive flagship team in the years Brymer studied, was 14 percent less likely to be dinged for a discretionary foul than, say, Purdue, a non-flagship team with little chance of contending for a national title. The Buckeyes fared even better with refs in 2014, when it made the first-ever formal playoff and won the national championship on Jan. 12, 2015."
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"This is an incestuous situation," says Rhett Brymer, a business management professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He spent more than a year parsing almost 39,000 fouls called in games involving NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the 2012-2015 seasons. His research finds "ample evidence of biases among conference officials," including "conference officials showing partiality towards teams with the highest potential to generate revenue for their conference."
Brymer's data suggest something more insidious. Across the 3,000-odd regular-season and bowl games he studied, a bit less than half of the fouls called were what he terms "discretionary"holding, pass interference, unsportsmanlike conduct, and personal fouls like roughing the passer. Refs were on average 10 percent less likely to throw discretionary flags on teams that enjoy both strong playoff prospects and winning traditions. Brymer calls these teams "protected flagships."
"Protected flagships in the Big Ten did especially well with officials, the research shows. Ohio State, the conference's most competitive flagship team in the years Brymer studied, was 14 percent less likely to be dinged for a discretionary foul than, say, Purdue, a non-flagship team with little chance of contending for a national title. The Buckeyes fared even better with refs in 2014, when it made the first-ever formal playoff and won the national championship on Jan. 12, 2015."
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:16 am to VonDaMan
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Took this off another board.
Was it the "die SECRschafte" board?
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:22 am to VonDaMan
Did his study take into account that sometimes, better teams are more disciplined? Not always the case, but sometimes.
Also, we've all seen the [Opponent's Penalties Stat](LINK ) that shows Alabama, easily the SEC's only cash cow right now, opponents receive much more grace from officials when playing Alabama than they do vs other teams.
Also, we've all seen the [Opponent's Penalties Stat](LINK ) that shows Alabama, easily the SEC's only cash cow right now, opponents receive much more grace from officials when playing Alabama than they do vs other teams.
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:47 am to VonDaMan
You mean Reddit? Welcome to yesterday
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:51 am to flomacanes
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