Chocolate City Jordanaire wrote:closg00 wrote:Detroit pulls-off the upset at home, beating Orlando in a low-scoring game.
Dwight Howard: 17 mins, 6 fouls. Marcin Gortat: 23 mins, 6 fouls. No Piston with more than 4 fouls.
Pistons bigs: Ben Wallace and Kwame Brown, 2 fouls each.
Free Throws: Detroit 31-38 Orlando 12-16
Technical fouls: Howard, Redick, Orland bench.
Looks like the Wizards weren't the other team that got screwed by the refs tonight.
Officials: Javie, Roe, Forte.
Interesting idea: maybe we should have a 'Tracking NBA Refs' thread where we collate and spot trends in the data on NBA refs.
Hmnn: nate? Turn it into a blog and all the degenerate gamblers would pay real money for your info... Slice me a small fee for the concept?
Cross reference Refs vs player trends (more/less than average fouls). Refs vs final point spread. Refs vs home team (which are affected most by home crowd). You'd have to run regressions to separate which of the three has the which game effect, and real trends would emerge until you had a year's worth of data or so, but still seems to me the idea is sound.
In any case let this thread stand as a watch dog to keep an eye on the watchmen, see if any egregious or obvious trends pop up.