Quote ="Brummy Leyther"You seem to be pitching a PhD proposal
. A lot of interesting data, that does seem to indicate that referees may have differing relationships with the home and away sides. Probably still not causation in terms of the outcome of matches, though? (I am no statistician). I wonder what changes when matches are played at neutral venues?'"
We could never call this causation, it's just highly suggestive.
My main point here is shout at referees. Call everything forward, everything high and the referee bent whenever you can. Bugger what the oppo' fans think of you.
My next project is the NRL and its ever reducing number of suburban grounds and the shift to big multi team stadia. I am very curious about that now but I've never looked into it, and I haven't seen anyone else do it either. There must be someone over there who's thought of it but I've never seen the results.
Kinda curious to see what if any change two referees brought too. If this does boil down to psychology and the need for some, however slight, kidn of reassurance when there's the briefest hint of ambiguity then maybe that extra ref serves as a support mechanism.
. A lot of interesting data, that does seem to indicate that referees may have differing relationships with the home and away sides. Probably still not causation in terms of the outcome of matches, though? (I am no statistician). I wonder what changes when matches are played at neutral venues?
