[NU Sports] Q2: Columbus

[prplehaze at insightbb.com]

All plays subject to review are reviewed immediately after they happen even if
play hasn't been stopped.  When play is stopped for a review, it's because the
replay official sees sufficient indisputable evidence that the call on the field
was wrong and wants more time to review the play further.  Here's an explanation
of the Big Ten rule.  The point being that all plays are reviewed, if they are
eligble for review under the rules - not all plays are subject to review, as the
article linked below makes clear.


http://bigten.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/big10-replay.html
Mark Ament
prplehaze at insightbb.com


> At 11/12/2005 01:38 PM, SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\) wrote:
> >- Great stat by ABC of the replay reversals ... hmm
> >40% in the Big Ten to lead the BCS leagues. Guess
> >JoePa and Lloyd Carr were right all those years about
> >conference refs just plain ole' getting it wrong.
> 
> Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
> 
> The stat is meaningless without knowing how many plays (or actually what 
> percentage of plays) are selected for review.  If 5% of plays in the Big 
> Ten get reviewed and of those 40% get overturned, that's 2% of total plays 
> getting overturned.  But if 10% of plays in the SEC are getting reviewed (I 
> doubt that's true; I'm just using nice round numbers to make the math easy 
> and illustrate the point) and of those 23% are getting overturned, that's a 
> 2.3% rate of overturn.
> 
> I'm not arguing for or against Big Ten officials.  I'm just pointing out 
> that the number that they showed does not present the complete picture.
> 
> -Michael 
> 
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