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Bad Call: Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It

Bad Call: Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It

Evans, Robert
Collins, Harry
Higgins, Christopher

Paperback

Series: Inside Technology

FictionTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0262534444
ISBN13: 9780262534444
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 1 2017
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are--referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.

Good call or bad call, referees and umpires have always had the final say in sports. Bad calls are more visible: plays are televised backward and forward and in slow motion. New technologies--the Hawk-Eye system used in tennis and cricket, for example, and the goal-line technology used in English football--introduced to correct bad calls sometimes get it right and sometimes get it wrong, but always undermine the authority of referees and umpires. Bad Call looks at the technologies used to make refereeing decisions in sports, analyzes them in action, and explains the consequences.

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