Perhaps they should follow suit of the MLB and get rid of Division only Zebras/Umps/Refs what ever they like to be called these days?

NO WAI

/same goes for the star teams and the star players

Approves.

Pats fans STILL not over the Colts game?

(This study is 100% true, BTW)

In other news, the sky is blue, the Pope is catholic and bear shiat in the woods.

Nothing is worse than watching a fat umpire behind the plate ringing up a visiting teams player, trying to get the crowd into it. You know what I'm saying, fat ump is doing the lackadaisical hand signal the whole game, then all of the sudden , it's the 8th inning, home team is in a jam, and the batter takes a called strike 3, a foot outside the plate. The crowd goes wild and The umpire shakes his bulbous belly and screams at the top of his lungs while swinging his arms like a portly ninja, thinking those cheers are for him.

For some reason, Refs which are barely making end's meet salary don't want hundreds of thousands of crazy, drunk, fans trying to kill them and/or destroy their property.

Does not approve.

TFA:The professors studied 365 college games during the 2004-05 season and found that refs had a terrific knack for keeping the foul count even, regardless of which team was more aggressive.

"But part of this is, if I'm a ref, I want everyone to think I'm fair and if I call 10 fouls on one team and two on the other, people are going to think something's going on here. It's sort of subconscious."

We have the exact same problem in politics. I think it's called moderation bias.

But if you always suspected basketball referees are biased -- well, you're right, according to a couple of professors who've studied the matter.

I'm just curious as to where I can go to get a Ph.D in calling bullshiat.......wait a min.

//Fark is about to start giving out online degrees

I'll wait for their study on beer prices being higher at stadiums then at stores.

Next up: Hometown boxing judges.

"I am," I said. To no one there. And no one heard at all. Not even the chair.

Huggins talked about this on his show this evening. He raised a good point on wondering how many game films the guys who made the study watched. Foul discrepencies often occur towards the end of games when the trailing team is fouling when the winning team is doing everything not to foul and keep the clock moving.

chuckdpe1: Huggins talked about this on his show this evening. He raised a good point on wondering how many game films the guys who made the study watched. Foul discrepencies often occur towards the end of games when the trailing team is fouling when the winning team is doing everything not to foul and keep the clock moving.

FTFA:

"The professors looked only at first halves because teams committing intentional fouls while in catch-up mode at the end of games skewed the second-half results."

ha they should study the refs at a vikings home game. certainly no bias for the home team there. they watch the vikes like a hawk and let a lot of obvious penalties slide for away team like when we played detroit at home the other week.

Mogani: ha they should study the refs at a vikings home game. certainly no bias for the home team there. they watch the vikes like a hawk and let a lot of obvious penalties slide for away team like when we played detroit at home the other week.

As far as I could tell, it only looked at basketball games. Which is definitely a lot more fair then football games. The away team has to contend with the crowd noise, so miscommunications, misreads on snaps, etc all happen at a higher rate.

/Also can't count Cowboys games. Flozell Adams is enough of an outlier to offset any study

Subby has never been to Ashton Gate. We get fark all from the refs *every* game.

I have seen many, many trapped "interceptions", ball was in no TD called, ball wasn't in TD called, and phantom penalties all against my team and in their own stadium. Even got a "giving him the business" call during a home game.

I could say that there's a bias against us no matter where we go but I'm sure there are a lot of bad calls on both sides of every game. Nah, we're just persecuted by the refs.