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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwiwomble" data-source="post: 990201" data-attributes="member: 45355"><p><a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119842553/super-rugby-boss-denies-referee-bias-despite-alarming-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119842553/super-rugby-boss-denies-referee-bias-despite-alarming-statistics</a></p><p></p><p><em>For matches in South Africa, against non South African opposition, home sides have earned 154 more penalties than their overseas opponents across 42 games. This is in stark contrast to Australian referees in Australia (11 more penalties to the home side) and New Zealand referees in New Zealand (10 more to the away side).</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>In the last three seasons there have been 105 matches where a referee has taken the whistle in charge of a match between their country of birth and an overseas side. Overall the home team received an average of 1.56 more penalties per game.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>However, when broken down by nationality, South African referees awarded 3.67 more penalties to the home side, while Argentinian referees, from only two fixtures, 4.5 more per match.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>By comparison, Australian referees gave 0.5 more penalties on average each game to the home side and Kiwi officials awarded 0.26 fewer penalties per game to New Zealand sides.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>That doesn't sound very good....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwiwomble, post: 990201, member: 45355"] [URL]https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/119842553/super-rugby-boss-denies-referee-bias-despite-alarming-statistics[/URL] [I]For matches in South Africa, against non South African opposition, home sides have earned 154 more penalties than their overseas opponents across 42 games. This is in stark contrast to Australian referees in Australia (11 more penalties to the home side) and New Zealand referees in New Zealand (10 more to the away side). In the last three seasons there have been 105 matches where a referee has taken the whistle in charge of a match between their country of birth and an overseas side. Overall the home team received an average of 1.56 more penalties per game. However, when broken down by nationality, South African referees awarded 3.67 more penalties to the home side, while Argentinian referees, from only two fixtures, 4.5 more per match. By comparison, Australian referees gave 0.5 more penalties on average each game to the home side and Kiwi officials awarded 0.26 fewer penalties per game to New Zealand sides. [/I] That doesn't sound very good.... [/QUOTE]
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