Study: Referee Bias Exists, Just Not In The Expected Ways

[MapleLeaf]

From realgm.com

An academic study of NBA officiating found little to no evidence that referees favor teams from large media markets in the playoffs, which comes as a surprise to many conspiracy theorists.

The same study, however, found that NBA referees tend to favor home teams, teams trailing in a game and teams trailing in a playoff series.

"We can say with fairly high confidence that the results are not just due to randomness or (statistical) noise, that even teams facing elimination have an additional advantage in these referee-based turnovers, discretionary turnovers," said Daniel F. Stone, assistant professor of economics at Oregon State University and one of the study's authors.

 

[I'm With ATL]

teams trailing in a game and teams trailing in a playoff series.

lmfao, HELL NO. Why do you think half those teams are trailing anyways? Oh yeah, refs.

 

[.snowy]

The ref doesn't control the hoop or a shot release.

 

[Pugz]

[quote name='I'm With ATL' post='4066877' date='Jun 4 2009, 05:10 PM']lmfao, HELL NO. Why do you think half those teams are trailing anyways? Oh yeah, refs.[/quote]
Each post you make just makes you sound even more stupid.