Never offside!

[Steve Bee]

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Morrison playing Crooks onside

Lino made one decision all game and he was wrong by a mile.

 

[sweet_left_foot]

The completely unbiased Premier League say that 94% of decisions are right.
In other news I've voted for myself as the most handsome man in England. And the clevererest.

+1

 

[Scrote]

What else could it be? The whole premise of the point being made is that using VAR has increased the accuracy of key decisions. How far are you trying to go to make something else up it could be for such a large change?

The improvement is understated by saying 84- 92% anyway because the majority of those decisions are super clear cut and don't need VAR anyway. The sample size of actual decisions with a chance of being called incorrectly is much lower so the referees with the naked eye were getting about 50% of the 50:50 decisions correct and VAR means they get 85% of them correct.

Journalism 101 - if you have a fact backed up by data then you include it. If you don't have anything to back up the premise you want to push then you carefully don't write something that can be easily disproved with data/stats.

If those numbers were anywhere near reality we'd be hearing them every time VAR was being discussed, and all the cheerleaders in the media, who are now questioning VAR, would point to those stats.

getting about 50% of the 50:50 decisions correct and VAR means they get 85% of them correct

This is just made up nonsense.

VAR gets 72% more decisions wrong than referees ever did. FACT
This is more made up nonsense. It's surprisingly easy.

 

[FishofContemplation]

Is it worth it though?
The utter delirium of celebrating a vital goal, like Hackneys against Chelsea, knowing that nothing, literally nothing in the world can take that Goal away once the ref gives it, imagine that gone forever.
Imagine the tedium of up to 8 minute reviews to see if a goal is one inch offside.
Imagine the injustice of having VAR and still being on the end of horrendous decisions.
Imagine players going down in the box after the tiniest of touches because they know VAR will give penalties on technicalities.

That isn’t the only choice, though, at least as far as offside is concerned. The Premier League chooses to do that ridiculous drawing of lines by some bloke in a studio farce, but the semi automatic stuff used elsewhere is already much quicker than that, and once they finally decide to trust the technology and remove the “semi” bit of the human doublecheck could in principle be made as near to instantaneous as you wanted if you were prepared to throw enough computing power at it. At that point, essentially all the downside of offside by technology is gone. You could run it as you already do the goal line technology, sending an automatic signal to the ref that is almost as quick as, and eliminates the error of, some fat human knacker waving a hanky having totally failed to keep up with play.

 

[Muttley]

The sample size of actual decisions with a chance of being called incorrectly is much lower so the referees with the naked eye were getting about 50% of the 50:50 decisions correct and VAR means they get 85% of them correct.

Oh dear.

Statistics are such fun aren't they.