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Originally Posted by MCBear
I hate to burst your bubble, guys, but volleyball is the most difficult sport to officiate, period!
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I'll be uncharacteristically serious for a minute. I would think the main criteria to use to determine which sport is the most difficult to officiate would be how much subjectivity vs. objectivity would be involved. The more you have to use your judgment vs. just having a call be obvious by rule, the more difficult it would be to be consistent and "correct".
Using this theory, the most difficult games to work (not counting physical effort) would be lower level games that are extremely active, would allow the possibility of making a call almost every second and would require continuous use of your judgment. IOW, something like a 3rd grade basketball game, where you are constantly deciding "how much" traveling to allow, etc.
It would seem to me, the less amount of action in a game, the less difficult it would be to call. I realize this is a broad generalization, but I think it has some merit.