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re: Evidence Strongly Suggesting Alabama Officiating Bias
Posted on 12/4/12 at 3:04 pm to Stingray
Posted on 12/4/12 at 3:04 pm to Stingray
Numbers don't lie, fellas. Why is everybody busting balls over actual statistics? I am not out beating the bushes and crying foul over every perceived discrepancy but this (if true) is pretty legit.
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 3:26 pm to Stingray
Posted on 12/4/12 at 3:32 pm to Stingray
This suggests that we aren't as disciplined and play more aggressive football.
Which, contrary to your belief, is actually more likely than a bias towards alabama.
Which, contrary to your belief, is actually more likely than a bias towards alabama.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 3:36 pm to Stingray
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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 on 12/4/12 at 3:38 pm to Stingray
How does the comparison work when it's 'Bama vs. Auburn. Or Tennessee. Or Mississippi State? Is it a pro-Bama bias or an anti-LSU bias?
Your data is insufficient to justify any conclusion.
Your data is insufficient to justify any conclusion.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 3:51 pm to Stingray
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Evidence Strongly Suggesting Alabama Officiating Bias
Good morning, where have you been? NO Evidence needed, just use the eyeball test.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 4:00 pm to Stingray
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I performed a t test comparing the penalties called on LSU and Alabama during the regular
Posted on 12/4/12 at 4:04 pm to Stingray
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Stingray
Evidence Strongly Suggesting Alabama Officiating Bias
Possibly the biggest understatement ever uttered by a living organism since the Big Bang, in this Galaxy or any other. I think it may have even been the 11th Commandment.....
Posted on 12/4/12 at 4:08 pm to Stingray
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Evidence Strongly Suggesting Alabama Officiating Bias
Posted on 12/4/12 at 4:30 pm to Stingray
Nope
Posted on 12/4/12 at 4:35 pm to Stingray
Love the stats... 
Posted on 12/4/12 at 5:09 pm to Stingray
Posted on 12/4/12 at 5:52 pm to Stingray
Miles manhood is bigger than sabans causing saban to complain to the refs where they realize they too are inadequate and now we have a case of penis envy in which the refs decide to punish miles team.
Its always been about who does or doesn't have a foot long corndog.
Its always been about who does or doesn't have a foot long corndog.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 8:00 pm to Stingray
GET OVER IT!!! They are good and they beat LSU. The blame game around here is fricking pathetic.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 8:02 pm to Stingray
What alpha are you using ? Not that it matters because the p value will be smaller than any possible alpha
Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:04 pm to Stingray
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Alabama is a more disciplined team
This^
Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:15 pm to Stingray
no h0 no care
Posted on 12/4/12 at 9:23 pm to Stingray
Instead of this analysis, I'd recommend another couple things you can do. 1) Take LSU and Alabama and compare penalties per game in SEC games vs, non-SEC games where other refs are used with the same teams. And 2) Rather than just look at penalties called on the teams, I'd look at the rate at which penalties are called on the opposition.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 10:10 pm to Stingray
Not much evidence here. Now if you could show that for the past 10 years Bama was the least penalized team in the SEC year after year you might have something.
Posted on 12/5/12 at 7:49 am to Stingray
*bump*
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