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Originally Posted by bainsey

There's the fallacy. When you look at it in total, the truth is, every call can decide the outcome of the game, especially in a close game.

Let's say a ruling like this took place within the first three quarters. Those are points a team can never get back, and that situation will affect the score at the end. While Nevada points out that players can "overcome" it, can they really? All they can do is move on and keep playing, and all we can do is move on and keep officiating, but players will never get those points back on that incorrectly called play. Errors will indeed happen, but don't con yourself into believing that they only matter in the end.

Just because people don't remember a (non-)call, doesn't mean it isn't what it is. A game is always decided in 32, 40, or 48 minutes, never just one.

(Aside to Jurassic: +1)

That may be but Nevada's point is still valid. Suppose you mess up the toss in some way that gives the wrong team the ball. That's about as insignificant a mistake as you can make. Arithmetically it costs one possession but geometrically, it doesn't even significantly move either teams chances of winning. But if you miss a call at the end where you take a possession away from a team you may move there chances significantly. It's the same arithmetic affect, but the geometric effect is much more pronounced.
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