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andybernard

andybernard

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I had to laugh during the game last night when Mush and Fran were praising Lon for his ability to manipulate the refs. I'm sure you all remember him chewing out the refs during a timeout, then amazingly we were called for a foul as soon as the ball got to the block on their very next possession. The calls continued for a decent amount of time, as well.

Got me thinking about our fans. I mean, we DO boo a lot, but I don't think anyone actually thinks that every questionable call is bad enough to boo. This is our way of manipulating the refs, and I think it works, although not as effective as a coach doing it.

Similar to Bill Self and his deliberate technicals, or Huggy and his "can't call them all" defense.

I just think it's kind of sad, really, how easily these refs can be swayed into decisions.
 
J Sports Sci. 2009 May;27(7):687-94. doi: 10.1080/02640410902729733.
[h=1]Officiating bias: the effect of foul differential on foul calls in NCAA basketball.[/h]Anderson KJ1, Pierce DA.
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[h=3]Abstract[/h]In this study, we examined the pattern of foul calls exhibited during 365 NCAA basketball games during the 2004-2005 season. Results of the analysis indicate that officials are more likely to call fouls on the team with the fewest fouls, making it likely that the number of fouls will tend to even out during the game. This increased probability increases as the foul differential increases. In addition, there is a significant bias towards officials calling more fouls on the visiting team, and a bias towards foul calls on the team that is leading. The result is that the probability of the next foul being called on the visiting team can reach as high as 0.70. Finally, the implications of this officiating bias are explored, including the fact that basketball teams have an incentive to play more aggressively, leading to more physical play over time.



J Sports Sci. 2007 Sep;25(11):1185-94.
[h=1]Referee bias contributes to home advantage in English Premiership football.[/h]Boyko RH1, Boyko AR, Boyko MG.
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[h=3]Abstract[/h]Officiating bias is thought to contribute to home advantage. Recent research has shown that sports with subjective officiating tend to experience greater home advantage and that referees' decisions can be influenced by crowd noise, but little work has been done to examine whether individual referees vary in their home bias or whether biased decisions contribute to overall home advantage. We develop an ordinal regression model to determine whether various measures of home advantage are affected by the official for the match and by crowd size while controlling for team ability. We examine 5244 English Premier League (EPL) match results involving 50 referees and find that home bias differs between referees. Individual referees give significantly different levels of home advantage, measured as goal differential between the home and away teams, although the significance of this result depends on one referee with a particularly high home advantage (an outlier). Referees vary significantly and robustly in their yellow card and penalty differentials even excluding the outlier. These results confirm that referees are responsible for some of the observed home advantage in the EPL and suggest that home advantage is dependent on the subjective decisions of referees that vary between individuals. We hypothesize that individual referees respond differently to factors such as crowd noise and suggest further research looking at referees' psychological and behavioural responses to biased crowds.


It's interesting stuff.



 
The Hogue "foul" against Thomas on the missed dunk (where Hogue intentionally got out of the way) was particularly egregious. Especially when a minute later, Jameel was draped with three OU players on a missed dunk and they didn't call a damn thing.
 
The no call that ****** Kruger off was something that rarely ever gets called. Made no sense.
 
Frannypants would have been T'ed up immediately. Really thought Hield was out of control too.
 
That call on Hogue was the most ridiculous of them all, to me. He literally spun out of the way with his arms down because he knew he couldn't make a play without fouling, and the still called him for it. I'm pretty sure another OU player made more contact with the guy than OU did.
 
dmclone said:
If I remember correctly, after that it was 6 calls in a row for OU.
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It was pretty ridiculous after Lon's outburst at the refs. I'm not saying any of them weren't necessarily deserved, but there's no way they were squeaky clean on our side of the ball, in fact, as was stated, when McKay went for the dunk, I think all 3 guys fouled him, yet no call. Then down to the OU side, boom, foul.

It's pretty sad that you can manipulate a game that way.
 
Even NBA refs are famous for the make-up call. Tough for us to get those with Fred rarely complaining. Hopefully the refs appreciate that he won't show them up.
 
cyrocksmypants said:
That call on Hogue was the most ridiculous of them all, to me. He literally spun out of the way with his arms down because he knew he couldn't make a play without fouling, and the still called him for it. I'm pretty sure another OU player made more contact with the guy than OU did.
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Was that the one where the OU player was so far behind the backboard that he fell down trying to scoop it up and under?
 
I was ready to punch the wall after his whining and then the immediate "reach-in" call on Naz before he even touched the guy. Talk about the refs just taking it too, why no technical on that?? I like Kruger but that was a little too Self-like.
 
The foul count got to 6-1 after the Frantrum that Lon threw. What really annoyed me is that their makeup calls on OU were off the ball and non shooting fouls that had no consequence to the game at all. Not all fouls are equal.
 
MNclone said:
The foul count got to 6-1 after the Frantrum that Lon threw. What really annoyed me is that their makeup calls on OU were off the ball and non shooting fouls that had no consequence to the game at all. Not all fouls are equal.
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That's called "good officiating" when you even them up by making up crap off the ball that no one is looking at. I guarantee they even look at the foul count for each guy and make sure they aren't giving someone their 4th/5th foul.
 
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