Arena Bias in assists

Post #1 » by **rrravenred** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:55 am

Hoopdata picks up on something that's been touched on by numerous posters over the years.

http://hoopdata.com/blogengine/post/201 ... sists.aspx

Interesting to see if anything substantial comes of this.

turk3d · Post #2 » by **turk3d** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:34 pm

Maybe there hasn't been a study done on it, but I think the same holds true for other stats. I can't count the # of times that fouls are called on the wrong player or left off the stat sheet for certain others. I've seen guys get 3 or 4 blocks in a game but only get credit for 1 or 2.

Turnovers which are given to players other than the one who actually committed them, etc. Not to mention all of the "superstar calls". Really ruins the game for me. Guess it's good if you're a fanboy of the guy who's getting all the calls or who's stat sheet is being padded. Assists is a big one since it's rather easy for the scorer to do.

Post #3 » by **penbeast0** » Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:17 pm

I don't know if anyone is still doing it but Harvey Pollack in Philly used to keep stats about how often refs favored home teams v. away teams. It was sort of shocking the one year I remember it . . . . every referee in the NBA had a bias favoring the home team except Mendy Rudolph with some of them having a bias as big as 20%.

The NBA reportedly put pressure on him never to publish that stat again and since he worked for a franchise he quit putting it out.

Post #4 » by **floppymoose** » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:14 am

I wonder about the related question of assist inflation in general. Not a home bias, but just a pro-assist bias in general from some scorers. And the same for blocks.

In years past I have felt that GS scorers miss more blocks (for both teams) than usual. But that is just anecdotal and not backed up with any data.

sp6r=underrated · Post #5 » by **sp6r=underrated** » Thu Feb 7, 2013 9:59 pm

I don't know if anyone is still doing it but Harvey Pollack in Philly used to keep stats about how often refs favored home teams v. away teams. I

Doesn't surprise me. I wish I could remember the article but I read a pretty convincing statistical argument that home court advantage is entirely about the officiating.

darkangle901 · Post #6 » by **darkangle901** » Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:45 am

sp6r=underrated wrote:
I don't know if anyone is still doing it but Harvey Pollack in Philly used to keep stats about how often refs favored home teams v. away teams. I

Doesn't surprise me. I wish I could remember the article but I read a pretty convincing statistical argument that home court advantage is entirely about the officiating.

I don't buy the idea that home-court advantage is "entirely" the result of officiating.

I recall a study showing that home teams win the "effort tasks" like loose balls and rebounding more often. But road teams did slightly better in concentration tasks like FT's or just clutch shots in general.

I guess that's why conventional wisdom has always been that the road team's goal is just to hang around until the 4th quarter.