LongTimeListener
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Herbert Anchovy said:RickStain said:That's a fantastic example of how to mislead with a bar graph by setting the bottom axis arbitrarily.
Explain.
I don't know what Rick's explanation would be, but to me the graph makes it look like the first crew calls 400 percent more penalties than the last crew, when in reality the difference is 40 percent, and neither extreme seems to be more than 20 percent from the average. Overall, every refereeing crew calls between 10 and 14.5 penalties per game, which seems about right.
This is a wholly different issue from the fact that the officials suck and their bosses engineer the games to their liking, as Michael Gee points out.