How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games

Re:How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games by privong on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:32PM (#19213445)

> If you've watched any NBA in the past decade you can see a trend of calling fouls against teams that are winning too heavily against favorites. It's not hard.

This should be fairly easy to test with play-by-play data[0]. I don't have time to do it just this moment, but I may give it a stab later.

[0] https://eightthirtyfour.com/data

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Re:How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games by UweSchmidt on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:48PM (#19213539)

I am sure such a study would be interesting to a wide audience.

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Re:How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games by privong on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:29PM (#19214281)

Thanks. If I manage to work through it, I'll put it online somewhere (and post the link to HN).

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