Will Pro Sports Ever Replace Refs with AI Reffing?

They rigged the bowl too. Damn, I didn't watch but find it very suspicious a 43 year old QB is winning and still playing.

 

In baseball I think its easily doable. In football and basketball its impossible because every play is physical and probably can be called a foul. That is why ref effect the game so much..

 

Baseball absolutely, also tennis, but not sure how it would work in contact sports.

Baseball needs it badly for balls and strikes. It's a horrible look when in the playoffs at home you can see the ball entirely fall outside the zone and be called a strike, or vice versa. Just get it right.

 

Nah, officiating is another exciting part of the game.

 

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I would say we will never get to that point, but I also said we would never have self-driving cars, so what do i know....

 

Comes down to development cost to value proposition.

 

Hockey refs are awesome. Keep them forever.

And...Australian Rules Football...YOU NEVER REPLACE A REFEREE THAT LOOKS THIS PIMP...

 

They should use technology to enhance the ref's ability to call the games, but a complete replacement doesn't seem right.

Who would Gordon yell at if there weren't any refs?


I would like the replay center to have more power, give the refs earpieces so they can have seamless communications with them on the fly to overturn bad calls, or alert them of obvious, crucial missed calls.

 

literally no one pays to watch the refs and their egos **** up results

 

Commissioners just haven't looked hard enough.

 

They need to replace players with AI, too. Why the heck do we need humans for sports?

 

Whats the fun in yelling "Hey AI YOU SUCK!!!!"?????

 

will it cost tillmen money?

 

100% agree.

You can tell that NBA coaches have their players find out early in the game what will get called or not, by this set of refs.

Last minute of a NBA game? Forget about it.

As a fan, I wish that the rules would be consistently called game by game. As much as I want that, I don't know how you would get it. Could AI really figure out a flop? a charge? I doubt it. But AI could figure out traveling, 3 second violations, hand checking, palming, ...

 

Flops are physics. I'm not too familiar with what is done for motion capture for basketball, but in baseball, they can track where a players arms and legs are. With that information if applied to basketball along with body weight, it should be easy for highly technical people (maybe grab the guys doing the physics for baseball) to calculate how much actual force one player is applying to another player. If a player flies away from contact at a greater velocity than the force applied by the other player...flop. 3 seconds should be easy and completely automated. Traveling....that probably can be automated. Handchecking..automated with oversight. Palming is likely more difficult. It is just a matter of getting enough cameras, having someone program the physics, and then calibrate it with what amount of contact is permissible and what isn't.