You know what would be an interesting study?

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The study subject would be "has the absence of fans changed the home team vs away team fouls called difference in a statistically significant way."

Anyone see anything on this? Do fans influence referees calls? This would be really interesting to find out with actual data.

Thoughts?

 

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The study subject would be "has the absence of fans changed the home team vs away team fouls called difference in a statistically significant way."

Anyone see anything on this? Do fans influence referees calls? This would be really interesting to find out with actual data.

Thoughts?

It was covered a bit in this book. Think his conclusion from all the numeric regression was that officials subconsciously hated being yelled at.

Scorecasting The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won By Moskowitz, Tobias J., 2011

 

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It was covered a bit in this book. Think his conclusion from all the numeric regression was that officials subconsciously hated being yelled at.

Scorecasting The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won By Moskowitz, Tobias J., 2011

Interesting. Thanks. It would seem like the difference could be more clearly quantified in by what we saw this season vs a typical season.