HOME GROUND ADVANTAGE VIA UMPIRES
“Gutless umpire!” Fact or Fiction? For about 20 years now I have been keeping stats on how umpire bias plays out with home ground advantage. The AFL and other stats sites began to do this […]
AUSSIE RULES
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 […]
HALT-TIME AT THE FOOTBALL – VOL 1 SCORE REVIEW: THE ONLY SOLUTION
I spend minutes, hours, days on the phone or in various email and social media communication with my learned footy friends discussing the whys and wherefores of the great game of football – that is […]
….BUT IT NEVER AFFECTED THE RESULT
Push in the back … Oh, apparently not Ah Throw! … Apparently not Contact below the knee, right? …. Nope Too high? … Don’t be silly. Holding the man AND too high obviously … Not […]