REVIEWS FOR MY BOOKS
I don’t generally like sticking reviews up on my site even though I am lucky they are normally good. But when a reader takes the trouble to write to me then I think it’s worth […]
Rant
HOME TOWN UMPIRING 2019
An amazing thing happened this year as the season passed the half-way point and pressure built with many teams jostling for a place in the top four or top eight, the players on AWAY sides […]
HOME TOWN UMPIRING VOL XV1
Okay it’s now about 15 years since I started to check out stats on home town umpiring and about 10 since I did some assiduous stats work on it. Those of you who have followed […]
HOME GROUND ADVANTAGE VIA BIASED UMPIRING
The Shaun Giles article on the bias enjoyed by Victorian teams in the Grand Final was a step in the right direction but the analysis of Darren O’Shaughnessy (sports data analyst) seriously undersells the advantage […]
NOTHING CHANGES – UMPIRES STILL BIASED TO HOME SIDES AND VICTORIAN SIDES MOST
Every year I dutifully do my analysis of the relative bias of home-town umpiring and it seems every year it throws up pretty much the same result – certainly for the last six years. I […]
HOME TOWN UMPIRING
For years I’ve had this feeling that AFL umpires are biased to home teams when games are played between clubs of different states. More specifically, I’ve had a hunch that Victorian teams don’t suffer as […]
Something fishy in the water
Last week, I sat back to watch a program on the ABC that had been overdue for 20 years – a documentary on the vibrant WA music scene. It was called Something in the Water […]
A RANT: Something fishy in the water …
Last week, I sat back to watch a program on the ABC that had been overdue for 20 years a documentary on the vibrant WA music scene. It was called Something in the Water […]