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Originally posted by LDUB
You can not compare the "error percentages" of football and baseball officials. In a baseball contest, the calls of the officials are fairly limited to safe/out, fair/foul ball/strike. Football officials could call a foul on every scrimmage play. Of course when you notice that 3 fouls should have been called on a certain play and only 1 was, that is a 67% error rate. Football is a totaly different game than baseball and they can not be compared in the way you have tried to.
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Of course you can compare them. You can compare anything if you're sufficiently creative. But I think I know what you mean: every play at a base requires a call from an umpire in baseball, and not every play requires (or gets) a call by a football official. I guess that's part of what I had in mind by putting "error percentage" in scare quotes.
But look: we see a lot of close plays on slow motion replay in both sports. If you compare just those plays, it seems to me that baseball umps get the call right more often than football officials. Is your perception different?