Ouchie-Z-Clown
I'm better than Mulli!
Chap - read your first paragraph. You’re equating the 52% of mistakes made by refs on challenged plays to any industry in which 52% would be made. You didn’t say “other industries in which a 52% of a small subset of their most egregious work is examined” you said 52% period. And you’d be right, if you looked at an industry and 52% of the time they were wrong it would absolutely result regs, etc. But 52% of the challenged plays being wrong isn’t 52% of all calls being wrong. I get what you were trying to say, but the analogy was clunky at best, and just wrong at worst.
And yes there are errors outside of the challenged plays. But remember, there are likely massive amounts of things done right. On literally every play there are ten men on the court moving all over the court, running into one and other, loving a ball around, etc. Every interaction, on ball and away from the ball, could be a call or a noncall. So there are likely 200 possessions between two teams on average. And in every possession there are likely anywhere from 10 - 100 things that could be called (every bump, every dribble, every step, etc). Everything that the refs don’t blow a whistle on that was appropriately a noncall is a “right” judgment call by the ref. Most of it is obvious, but that doesn’t make it any less a “correct” noncall. The point being, they aren’t off on their judgment 52% of the time. Which was the inference of your first paragraph.
As an aside - has anyone here officiated any fast moving sport? It’s tough. Really tough. I’ve tried with basketball. With kids. Not big, fast, athletic men flying all over the place. Some calls or missed calls are bad. No doubt. But we have the advantage of watching on tv and seeing replays, etc. doing it on the court is massively difficult.
