In my opinion, it tends to even itself out. I’ve had the NBA LeaguePass going on 20 years and watch a few games a night...... Believe it or not call DO go both ways. I watch all the Laker games and it’s safe to say LeBron and AD get fouled every time they take it to the hole, so it might seem like they get favorable calls. But shit, they get double teamed and hacked all game long. Dame has definitely been getting those CP3 type superstar calls these past few years.
Agree. Last night was definitely bad against us, but I’ve seen nights where Dame gets 10+ free throws on mostly touch fouls. It is what it is.
I mean this is pretty obvious and I tell my kids this.....it’s on the athletes to get a feel for the refs and how they are going to call it. This applies to all levels of sports. If they are going to call it tight, you better adjust.
Then we need to remove the human element. I would rather have robots ref the game and have it evenly called every single time rather than have some douchebag ref who decides he's the god of the court.
I'm a software developer - Windows apps in C# and SQL. I download each game into a custom database then after that I don't have to deal with the API. I've run into getting throttled on API calls when downloading. Once it gets frozen, no calls will work for about 5-10 minutes it seems. My main problem is that a lot of their data is not robust and not structured well. Like there is no indicator whether a rebound is offensive or defensive. At first glance it seems easy to determine by just looking at the last shot and seeing if the rebounder and shooter are on the same team. But no, when events occur within the same second they are often out of order. Like Rebound, Rebound, Shot, Shot... when it should be Shot Rebound Shot Rebound. Without knowing if a rebound is offensive or defensive, it's hard to group events into possessions. Also it's hard to determine who is on the floor with 100% accuracy because they don't tell you the lineup at the start of the period and even if they did, substitution events are sometimes missing or wrong. So I waste a lot of time trying to find ways around these things.
I guess that's why people pay for second spectrum! Nobody likes cleaning and building data pipelines.
The inconsistent fouls called against the Blazers and the Nuggets denied us the comeback win that should have resulted from Dame playing a playoff game, including scoring 55 points with 12 swish3s, and scoring 14 points in 6 of 8 shooting in the OT. Dame was fouled on the swish3 shot at the end of the 1st OT, as well as other times in the game, while Jokic even got fouls called for touching his shirt. The fouls called for moving screens were inconsistent and arbitrary, except that they went against the Blazers, in particular Nurk's 5th foul. Let's demand NBA Professional officiating. For Denver Games 6 and 7, there needs to be consistency and accuracy by the Officials and the Blazers can win!
