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Originally posted by rainmaker
I'm leaving this as a hypothetical, since I don't want it to appear to be directed at one person (although I do have one person in mind).
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Juulie - I know you're not talking about me, since my reputation is that I am always biased against
BOTH teams
I have worked games where I thought this might be the case. However, in analyzing one of those games, I realized that my partner was calling an extremely tight game under the basket and because of the way the game progressed, he was lead when one of the teams was on offense an inordinate amount of time. So it wasn't bias, just coincidence. I knew this because in subsequent games we worked, his calls were just as tight (way too tight by anyone's standards) but the amount of time he was lead for either team was close to even, so both teams got their share of foul calls.
In the cases where I thought there was actual bias by partners, I must confess I have not confronted them about it. One thing I
DO NOT do is try to "even things up."
Maybe if I see you this weekend, you can tell me who it is. I'm not saying this because I like gossip, but perhaps it is someone about whom I also have had suspicions.