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Bad Call - Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It (Hardcover)
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Bad Call - Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It (Hardcover)
Series: Inside Technology
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How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the
consequences are-referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the
illusion of perfect accuracy maintained. Good call or bad call,
referees and umpires have always had the final say in sports. Bad
calls are more visible: plays are televised backward and forward
and in slow motion. New technologies-the Hawk-Eye system used in
tennis and cricket, for example, and the goal-line technology used
in English football-introduced to correct bad calls sometimes get
it right and sometimes get it wrong, but always undermine the
authority of referees and umpires. Bad Call looks at the
technologies used to make refereeing decisions in sports, analyzes
them in action, and explains the consequences. Used well,
technologies can help referees reach the right decision and deliver
justice for fans: a fair match in which the best team wins. Used
poorly, however, decision-making technologies pass off statements
of probability as perfect accuracy and perpetuate a mythology of
infallibility. The authors re-analyze three seasons of play in
English Premier League football, and discover that goal line
technology was irrelevant; so many crucial wrong decisions were
made that different teams should have won the Premiership, advanced
to the Champions League, and been relegated. Simple video replay
could have prevented most of these bad calls. (Major League
baseball learned this lesson, introducing expanded replay after a
bad call cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect
game.) What matters in sports is not computer-generated projections
of ball position but what is seen by the human eye-reconciling what
the sports fan sees and what the game official sees.
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