Accurate. To think this isn't even a possibility based on what we see week in and week out is not rational.Steered. Not rigged.
Accurate. To think this isn't even a possibility based on what we see week in and week out is not rational.
NFL Head of Officiating.Does Goodell phone the refs personally, or does he have people for that.
That's 100% rightI'll save you some time, here's how it works with every single naive myopic fanbase.
Their team wins: "OMG we're amazing and we're going all the way!"
Team loses: "Fire everyone and the games are rigged against us because <insert nonsensical reasoning>
NFL Head of Officiating.
Always seems to know nothing about actual officiating so his "real" job is telling selected game refs which teams Goodell likes that week.
Is it rational to believe this happens and no one hears about it? Do I believe that sometimes a ref is paid to make certain calls? Yes I believe that happens, but it's not the league, it's a bettor. And a stupid one at that. How many people make up the referee team? Including the guys in the booth and back in New York? How many of those would you need to pay, and how much to make your bet a sure thing? It has to be a losing proposition.Accurate. To think this isn't even a possibility based on what we see week in and week out is not rational.
Is it rational to believe this happens and no one hears about it? Do I believe that sometimes a ref is paid to make certain calls? Yes I believe that happens, but it's not the league, it's a bettor. And a stupid one at that. How many people make up the referee team? Including the guys in the booth and back in New York? How many of those would you need to pay, and how much to make your bet a sure thing? It has to be a losing proposition.
A one off occurrence, sure it could happen. Does the NFL script games or the season? No way. That's a prescription to burn money. The NFL is a billion dollar operation. Mess with that and you end up in the desert outside of Vegas.
Yeah, but Grandma is right. Her TV is controlled my martians. I mean, have you seen that Ray Walston guy who has TV antennae come out of his head. Just like a TV. Proof!I feel like this is trying to rationalize with your crazy grandma who thinks Martians control her TV.
Emotionally rationalizing crazy conspiracies like this one is an unwinnable argument. Because there's no way to apply logic or reason.
"The league's out to get us" = 100% of all fans like this, in every fan base, in every city, for every sport on the planet.
The few experimental studies on referees’ decisions found that the crowd noise does indeed favor the home team: fewer punishments are administered to the home team in comparison with situations where the crowd noise was absent16,28. Although not a formal part of the traditional model, it is known that performance itself influences referees’ decisions29,30,31. Attacking teams may force, for example, the other team to revert to fouling, which results in more warnings for the defending team
Yeah, but Grandma is right. Her TV is controlled my martians. I mean, have you seen that Ray Walston guy who has TV antennae come out of his head. Just like a TV. Proof!
It's not rigged but humans do have subconscious biases which play out when it comes to officiating. Home field advantage plummeted during COVID in part because referees were no longer being swayed by the home crowd: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00784-8
The other main problem with officiating is that prior expectations impact our ability to accurately view the present. Jordan got a fourth step, and if a backup CB gets tangled up with a star WR then the star is getting the benefit of the doubt.
I don't think the league is out to get us. I think the league is out to extract as much money from fans as at all possible.I feel like this is trying to rationalize with your crazy grandma who thinks Martians control her TV.
Emotionally rationalizing crazy conspiracies like this one is an unwinnable argument. Because there's no way to apply logic or reason.
"The league's out to get us" = 100% of all fans like this, in every fan base, in every city, for every sport on the planet.
The best way to do that is to have as much integrity to the game as you can. If it ever got out that Refs are given orders to keep the games close they'd lose money. I know I'd stop watching, wouldn't you?I don't think the league is out to get us. I think the league is out to extract as much money from fans as at all possible.