Daryl Morey should release advance analytic on referees

Seems like a lot of these calls would be subjective as to whether a call was correct or not. For instance, in last night's game the refs were calling a lot of touch fouls. Technically, these are correct calls because they are, indeed, fouls. But we just thought they were bad calls because they were disrupting the flow of the game and weren't being called both ways.

 

You couldn't touch Aldridge last night.

 

He would have to do it anonymously. Stern would crush him with his last act as commissioner.

 

Forget touching, you couldn't even breath on him. I watched the game again and some of the fouls were pretty much phantom fouls.

 

To do something like this, Morey would have to leave the NBA and start his own sports consulting firm.

He would become a very wealthy man.

 

Yeah, someone associated with an NBA team couldn't do it. Maybe when the dictator finally GTFO.

But I've wondered why some of the independent detailed stats providers haven't done something like this. I'd be very interested in, say, the percentage of flops a referee falls for, or the ratio of the charge vs. blocking fouls called. To avoid bias, you could even do something very simple like provide the ratio of fouls (and other types of calls) called on the road team vs the fouls called on the home team.

 

this would net what? a billion dollar fine?

 

'correctly' is a matter of opinion. Should just show:

Who calls the most travel calls
Who calls the most foul calls in the low post
Who calls the most palming


I would actually like to know the answer to these:

Whose rate of foul calls increases/decreases the most in the 4th quarter?
Who calls the highest rate of offensive foul calls on low post players (I think 99% of these are bs and is a **** way to get a big man in foul trouble)?
who has the highest/lowest blocks called to charges called ratio?

 

This is very interesting, but as stated above Stern would burn him alive. I'm going to look for a student case study that's protected from Stern's wrath floating around.

 

Forget Stern, the mafia would kill Morey.

 

The nba is rigged but I still watch it anyway

 

This is an excellent idea.

And I'm being dead serious.

 

^ I agree -- it doesn't really matter who does it IMO, but it would be really interesting to read a concise report on this subject. Good thread OP.

 

Hell let's enact this system, and the worst offenders/inaccurate call makers/no-call makers be subject to fines. And those with excessive fines be subject to league investigation for foul play, gambling, favoritism, and the like. Dead serious as well. Joey Crawford would be on his knees and that would bring me to tears in laughter. I can see it now....This would bring a definite stop to the possibly of the league being rigged internally.

 

Gangsters scare me.

 

that's not how you institute a fining policy. If every ref does an awesome job then somebody would still get fined with your policy(there must be a worst). It needs to be something like 'if your bad call rate is 10% or above for 2 or 3 straight seasons then you are fired.'