Quantifying implicit biases in refereeing using nba referees as a testbed

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    | 1 Vol.:(0123456789) During the whole period that the data cover there is overall a home-team bias, which is even more pronounced during the playoffs. There is not any racial bias observed when analyzing (personal) technical fouls called. For every technical foul the play-by-play data also provide information for the referee calling it and of course the player receiving it. To examine possible home-court biases in refereeing I start by calculating the home team net whistle gain for all the games in the L2M dataset. I examined the presence of . . .

     

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