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NFL Referees Association calls "conspiracy theories" both "insulting" and "preposterous"
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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At what point are they no longer "theories"?
When they come out and say "yo we be doing that shit"
When your social media algorithm convinced you it was true, despite the fact that the Chiefs are middle of the league in penalties accepted.
Penalties accepted is not a metric for determining favorable calls. Quit pretending your skewed facts are somehow better than anyone else's.
Absolutely it is, and furthermore, is a metric that would make far more sense in demonstrating favoritism in officiating. It also just happens to amuse me that the Bills and Vikings are the teams that you all think the Chiefs are, but even with favoritism on the part of the officials (going by the numbers) they still aren't good enough to win.
I'm advocating for use of proper statistics not for either side.
Favoritism is getting calls that you shouldn't get, not the number of calls you get. Playing more undisciplined teams could easily influence the numbers.
To identify a bias trend you need to look at calls against over average, ie do the Chiefs get more calls over a particular opponents average. Even this can be misleading as it's a measure of penalties not bad call penalties and the sample size is not large enough.
Chiefs average 6.1 penalties against per game.
Let's look at the Chiefs opponents.
Ravens average 8.3 pen against per game they had 7 Chiefs 6. Chiefs -1
Bengals 5.8 Average, had 8 against chiefs had 4. Chiefs +4.
Atlanta 5.8 average, game was 6 & 6 l. Chiefs 0.
Chargers 5.8 average, game 9 & 5. Chiefs +4.
Saints 6.5 average, game 5 & 6. Chiefs -1.5
49ers 6.5 average, game 6 & 4. Chiefs +1.5.
Raiders 5.6 average, game 5 & 8. Chiefs -2.5
Bucs 6.8 average, game 5 & 4. Chiefs +0.
Broncos 6.5, game 6 & 3. Chiefs +2.5.
Bills 7.4, game 3 & 6. Chiefs -4.5.
Panthers 6.9, game 9 & 10. Chiefs -2.
Raiders 5.6, game 9 & 7. Chiefs +4.5.
Chargers 5.8, game 7 & 8. Chiefs +3.
Browns 6.9, game 6 & 4. Chiefs +0.
Texans 7.9, game 6 & 2. Chiefs +2.
Steelers 6.4, game 4 & 9. Chiefs -0.5.
Broncos 6.5, game 5 & 3. Chiefs +1.5
Texans 7.9, game 8 & 5. Chiefs +2.
Bills 7.4, game 6 & 5. Chiefs -0.5.
Chiefs are +12.5 penalties above average which indicates they may be getting more calls than they should.
That doesn't mean they maybe shouldn't have been closer to the bottom of the league in penalties accepted and got bogus calls in their favor, pushing them towards the middle of the pack. You'd have to review the accuracy of the calls and their impact on the game situation, not just the quantity.