DOT wrote:Mamba42 wrote:Jaydubb wrote:By the way.. this tweet will knock your panties off.. Many fans (mostly Dallas fans) were complaining earlier in the year that the eagles received so much help from the refs. Well.. this says that’s not true.. In fact, Dallas received the most game altering calls in the NFL and the eagles received the least game altering calls in the NFL in 2023.
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His original tweet didn't have Dallas first or Philly last. I am confused on methodology though. He doesn't seem to describe what it is in this thread. Do you know what the methodology is? What is a "game altering call"? Does it measure missed calls? Does it measure incorrect calls? That's really where it matters a lot, IMO. Nobody really cares if the refs are making good calls down the stretch, that isn't a problem and it seems that what is being measured here as far as I can tell.
I believe it looks at the win probability on like, ESPN or something, and then takes the plays where it shifted by at least 5%
Meaning, if a team had an 80% chance to win, and then the next play there was a penalty which caused the win probability to go to 85%, that's a game-altering call
I can tell you why there's so many for the Jags, it's cause we were DPI hunting for a lot of the year. Too many throws were just "f*ck it, Calvin's down there somewhere, hopefully the ref calls DPI", which is why Ridley had the most DPI called against him in the league but a sub-56% catch%.
Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation! That makes sense. So this really isn't a measure of favoritism or something like that, then. It doesn't tell us whether the refs made good calls or bad calls (or missed calls) during games, which I think is the point JayDubb was trying to make.
On your Jaguars point, that is pretty interesting too. I think that's actually a smart play if you have like 3rd and long (just chuck it up and see if you can get a pass interference). If they were doing it frequently, though, that would be annoying. Time for a better game plan.