Study: Shorter NBA refs call more fouls

[Basketball Fan]

I'm curious why they started this type of study though

http://online.wsj.com/articles/study-shorter-nba-refs-call-more-fouls-1415046039

[quote]Study: Shorter NBA Refs Call More Fouls
Review of 4,000 Games Links Height of Referee Crews to Whistles Per Game; Vantage Point or Napoleon Complex?

NBA referees have been scrutinized over the years for every imaginable bias. Now, though, new research has whistled another trait that may shape how refs call games: their height.

As it turns out, the league

[qrich]

Racist.

[IncarceratedBob]

Slave owner mentality

[oarabbus]

Then they split NBA crews into three tiers: 6 feet and under, 6 feet to 6 feet 3 and 6 feet 3 and taller. What they found was that each additional inch per crew resulted in .017 fewer personal fouls per 48 minutes. That means the shortest crew, at 8 2/3 inches shorter than the tallest crew, calls .147 fouls more per game, or a 3.6% increase from the league average.


3.6%?

:facepalm:

:kobe:

I hope this wasn't a taxpayer-funded study.

[ILLsmak]

Well yaknow what I noticed. They always or usually have one guy that looks like he's not afraid to fight anyone in the nba. It seems like those guys are there to enforce and break up fights where as the little old guys are the actual refs. That probably plays into it.

-Smak

[Ai2death]

This explains a lot, one of the refs in our local league is a midget.