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fart simpson posted:i dont understand how nearly every game both teams can come away feeling screwed by the officiating, and people have been complaining about the poor quality of the refs for years. why wont the league do anything about it? Outrage is a better vector for engagement, as social media has taught us. The leagues have probably figured out that we're paradoxically more likely to keep watching the worse the refs are because it's the perfect excuse to rationalize in our own minds that our favorite teams are better than their record, and thus we should remain hopeful in their chances. "We" either won fair and square or Got Screwed. And/or that an equally bad call the other way can get our team Back In It. Hand in hand with the over-extention of play in games and wild cards. The longer they forestall any given team being mathematically eliminated from post-season (and thus championship) contention, the longer that given team's fan base will retain enough hope to tune in and watch the commercials. The NFL in particular pretty much can't help but be this way because they tinker with their own rulebook so drat much that there are now so many sub-clauses and situational exceptions that contradict each other and rely on video assistance to legislate properly most of the rules of the sport are now beyond the capacity of the human eye to judge accurately. The more times the technically correct call fails the "eye test" of fans watching the game, the more arbitrary and out of control the game experience feels, and the more people turn to superstition to cope and explain, as humans have done when confronted with the unknown for thousands of years. Just in this case instead of constructing religions to explain phenomena, folks construct conspiracy theories to put their faith in. And maybe if they pray/root hard enough this will be the week the conspirators screw "our" opponent instead of "us" [that fans are tacitly encouraged to think of their favorite team as a "we/us" with replica jersey sales and "12th/10th/6th/whatever number applies to the sport in question"th man almost certainly exacerbates the phenomenon because now a given fan can take the "screwing" of their team as a personal affront to them, the paying customer.] BWV posted:refs are failed cops who just want to be on the tv. Sometimes I think they have ulterior motives but they are so incompetent they probably can't even do that. It's also annoying that there can be such differences in regular season v. playoff reffing. Get it together people. also this. And rarely is it more apparent than with your average Home Plate Umpire. Really, most of it probably comes down to this factor, despite our most colorful theorycrafting.
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tl;dr version: bad refs don't devalue ad revenue or tv contracts so why spend money on having good refs?
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