Working With a Homer

[wwcfoa43]

Originally Posted by Old School

Nobody ever said it was.

I am glad you agree. In flipping 12 coins, it is very likely that one of the distributions 5-7, 6-6, and 7-5 will occur. However, this is true in coin flipping, not in basketball.

Originally Posted by Old School

What does the Buffalo Bills got to do with this? We are talking bb. I don't recall the Super Bowl the Bills played in being officiated that bad like the one last year that caused the wrong team to win.

You are of the opinion that if events do not break evenly, then the influencers (officials) on the events must be inconsistent. So if you are correct then that means that a team should not lose four superbowls in a row, they should win half.

Originally Posted by Old School

I'm not sure where you're going with this statement. You call the game based on what you see. Basketball is such an subjective sport and I think this is what makes it so popular. There is no one "right" way to call a game.

Trying to be objective in a subjective situation is the goal of all officials. That is why we discuss things like advantage/disadvantage on this forum. However, just because it is subjective does not mean we assume that the calls will be split evenly. Every individual call must be analysed based on the rules, our mechanics and philosophies. In the end, the aggregate result does not have be calls evenly split between one team and the other. To assume that they should break that way creates inconsistency.

The Buffallo Bills have lost four superbowls out of four.

That's just because they su*k and they're the biggest loser franchise in the history of the NFL........

Oops, sorry, wrong forum, wrong soapbox.

[Ignats75]

I was confused there. I thought you were talking about the Browns.