He thought this was a positive spin \u2013 refs getting 90% of calls correct is pretty good right? \u00a0 No! \u00a090% right means 10% wrong and in the NBA with over 1 officiating call per minute, that translates into 50 calls per game and therefore 5 WRONG CALLS on average per game.<\/p>\n
Assuming 2\/3 of the wrong calls go in favour of the home team (conservative since officials tend to air on the side of caution and not disappointing the loud crowd), that means a net benefit to the home teams of almost 2 calls per game. \u00a02 extra possessions, 2 extra foul calls, etc. \u00a0 Each possession is worth 1 pt in the NBA, so this is worth 2 pts per game. \u00a0 Doesn\u2019t seem like a lot? \u00a0 Home court in the NBA is \u2018only\u2019 worth 3.5 pts and home teams win approx 60% of their games. \u00a0 2 of the 3.5 points of the home edge is conservatively JUST due to a ref bias that Commissioner Adam Silver just inadvertently admitted.<\/p>\n
Next time you are watching your team lose a close one on the road due to a bad call, just know that it is a reality accepted by the Commissioner of the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Adam Silver really put his foot in his mouth when commenting about NBA officiating last spring. http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/playoffs\/2016\/story\/_\/id\/15737936\/2016-nba-playoffs-adam-silver-says-reports-show-referees-90-percent-correct He thought this was a positive spin \u2013 refs getting 90% of calls correct is pretty good right? \u00a0 No! \u00a090% right means 10% wrong and in the NBA with over 1 officiating call per minute, that translates …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-value-bets-and-sports-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designsdaddydev.com\/sharpedgepicks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}