grumbleguts
User name to post ratio checks out
You know how it is, the umpire blows his whistle to start the match. He bounces the ball and seconds into match, he blows his whistle and there's some free kick lottery in the ruck contest. Some larrikin in the crowd calls out "He's been doin' it all DAY umpire!" and nobody actually knows what the free kick was for. But the game goes on.
Sometimes after a big game, you look back at the free kick count, and think to yourself: Those umpires screwed us.
In this episode of relevant or not, we check if free kicks have a say in the final scoreline.
Short answer THEY DON'T. In the 42 games studied, there was no correlation between the free for/against ratio and the final scoreline. Zero, nada, none.
The correlation coefficient for this data is -0.04. Not even a psychologist could find a correlation here.
It seems the umpires can do as they please, everyone now knows their silly little games they play trying to affect outcomes will come to no avail. They suck at their jobs and they suck at making decisions, and their sucking does even matter.
Sometimes after a big game, you look back at the free kick count, and think to yourself: Those umpires screwed us.
In this episode of relevant or not, we check if free kicks have a say in the final scoreline.
Short answer THEY DON'T. In the 42 games studied, there was no correlation between the free for/against ratio and the final scoreline. Zero, nada, none.
The correlation coefficient for this data is -0.04. Not even a psychologist could find a correlation here.
It seems the umpires can do as they please, everyone now knows their silly little games they play trying to affect outcomes will come to no avail. They suck at their jobs and they suck at making decisions, and their sucking does even matter.
