Dogawful Officiating

[Rod]

1 hour ago, Cf said:

 

What do you think VAR is? It's literally a human being watching a replay.

 

People talk about "the technology". Apart from the semi-auto offside still to come the rest of it is a human being's opinion having watched a video replay. Something we could have been doing 20+ years ago.

 

If the argument is "Video cameras are awesome" then yes I agree.

 

I disagree with "Using video cameras to re-referee games is awesome".

Hence why I said "if used correctly".

[Miercoles]

6 hours ago, Sima said:

 

If this practice is historically commonplace in refereeing it's a worry.  Doesn't surprise me though as it's sometimes the case as when a contentious free kick/corner has been awarded the referee blows up for a soft foul against the attacking team.

 

 

 

 

There's some academic research out there about home field advantage, and the only conclusive finding is that referees generally favor the home team. The rest of it (crowd gave us energy, etc) is mostly bullshit. Travel fatigue was given a small amount of credence, but really the advantage is in referee bias.

 

Here's a place to start if you're curious: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/2015/june/home-field-advantage-the-facts-and-the-fiction

[gbandit]

Fairly confident that playing in front of your own fans who are booing you or giving you a hard time must have a negative impact on performance