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Evidence Strongly Suggesting Alabama Officiating Bias

Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:15 pm
Posted by Stingray
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Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:15 pm
I performed a t test comparing the penalties called on LSU and Alabama during the regular season over the ten years from 2003 to 2012. I took the data of penalties each game from the official LSU and Alabama sites. Over this period each team played 118 games.

LSU's penalties per year goes like this: 89, 73, 74, 76, 76, 104, 74, 91, 67, 89.
Alabama's penalties per year: 48, 48, 63, 63, 48, 55, 70, 70, 66, 69.

LSU's average penalties per game is 6.8898.
Alabama's average penalties per game is 5.0847.

Using the t test comparing all the games, I get a p value of 0.0001! This means that there is certainly a difference between the penalties of these two teams. The important question is why?

I see two possible explanations.
1. Alabama is a more disciplined team. I find this to be highly unlikely as they would have to be more disciplined consistently of over a ten year period which included multiple different coaches on each team, including one coach who coached at both schools!
2. There is a bias for Alabama. This is much more likely. It would not take a conspiracy, just the subtle bias that is a result of the current structure of the SEC head offices. Also seems likely when we look at the other areas where Alabama seems to have created an advantage for itself.
Posted by Elleshoe
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:16 pm to
get a new hobby.
Posted by CQQ
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:17 pm to
Posted by CreoleGumbo
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:17 pm to
go on......
Posted by YouAre8Up
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:17 pm to
wow..... really? Do you see men in black suits following you around also?
Posted by Big Lake
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:18 pm to
Do you have ISDS tomorrow too?




shite like this needs to stop you are embarrassing us.
Posted by BayouBandit24
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:19 pm to
Posted by Meauxjeaux
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:20 pm to
quote:

89


And if dumbarse JC Copeland doesn't get the personal foul, we have 88 and are in the BCSCG.

So there.

Posted by MoreOrLes
Member since Nov 2008
19472 posts
Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:22 pm to
Of course its Biased towards bama.


Just find any coach or Oline player at any level and ask them if its possible to go a whole year without a holding call. Then tell them that bama did it in 09.

Hilarity or a perplexed look will ensue.
This post was edited on 12/4/12 at 2:25 pm
Posted by 228Tiger
Harrison County
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:23 pm to
make it stop
Posted by whomewhat
Member since Jan 2004
765 posts
Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:25 pm to
It is amazing how much more disciplined Saban's teams became when he left LSU. If your numbers are correct he had more penalties in 2003 and 2004 at LSU than he's ever had Alabama. Likewise Shula, that legend of a coach had fewer penalties at Bama than LSU has ever had during the years you listed.
Posted by hg
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:26 pm to
Posted by CptBengal
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Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:28 pm to
quote:

I performed a t test comparing the penalties called on LSU and Alabama during the regular season over the ten years from 2003 to 2012. I took the data of penalties each game from the official LSU and Alabama sites. Over this period each team played 118 games.



awful method.

You should compare the penalties against the same teams using a mutivariate ANOVA with an auto-regressive error structure.

You probability value for the tail of 0.0001 seems absurd anyway. Did you use a 1 or two tailed test? What was your null hypothesis?
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
Member since Sep 2006
30596 posts
Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:28 pm to
Hope you don't mind, but I'm gonna dump this here too. This breaks it down a little differently.



As you stated, it doesn't seem to matter who the coach is, what the team's record is, etc. BAMA gets penalized less BY FAR than LSU.
Posted by Ghostfacedistiller
BR
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:31 pm to
All games or just SEC games?

Posted by harry coleman beast
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:31 pm to
I've had enough


Posted by prplngldtigr
just up da bayou from down
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:32 pm to
Can you narrow it down to just holding calls?
Posted by Dalosaqy
I can't quite re
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:50 pm to
Margin of error?
Posted by YouthInAsia
Member since May 2008
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:51 pm to
quote:

I performed a t test


stopped reading here.
Posted by LSU82BILL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Member since Sep 2006
10334 posts
Posted on 12/4/12 at 2:52 pm to
It is kinda interesting that the 89 penalties in 2003 and the 73 penalties in 2004 that LSU had under Saban are more than ANY Alabama team had in that 10 year stretch.
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