Why Human Referees Are Getting Replaced
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Nobody complains about offsides with the VAR, as offside is black and white, it has no margine.
The problem is how long it takes and inconsistency.
It started from cricket originally
Review is ruining sports. The refs, the calls, the errors are all part of the game
cleo just watch one match of anthony taylor refering you will hate each and evry baldies in the world .Same goes to michael oliver and whole pgmol,these guys are commiting a A rated crime and they escape with robots as excuse
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Hawkeye for ball humans for humans maybe
I love your excitement yourself and your videos. I especially like the one… Why sports need more robot referees I am all for it, be blessed
Hahaha… the “fans or supporters” who don’t want accuracy… well, what can I say? I usually refer to the saying “right should be right”!
I saw a post where a “supporter” wrote “I’m done with football..” Yep! Who cares 😅😂😂😂
Have you ever checked out the LA LIGA EA SPORTS'(top flight of Spanish football) graphics?Looks like tech is shaping the future of sport broadcasting.
I've been a hockey ref for around 10 years now… ain't any way that we're getting replaced. There is so many calls where it's basically impossible for a human or robot to tell, that you kinda have tk let humans decide… most of the rulebook is gray at this point. Take icing for example, almost every liney lets it go if they're almost at the red line. Take that away and players get incredibly mad.
Okay I need to stop rambling I'm not making any sense.
football ⚽ >>>>> handegg 🏈
in the equestrian industry there is not one robot referee at least of my knowledge and I’ve been in this industry for a little over 10 years
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I personally love the suspense on waiting for a VAR call, that Japan goal vs Spain was cool
For football, get a buffer. Toes aren't important. For tennis and other higher precision sports, don't have a buffer. It's simply easy.
I hate the way that many soccer leagues use VAR, takes way too long and often leads to worse calls. But when implemented properly its amazing.
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The biggest problem up until now with robot and computer accuracy isn't that it's too accurate, but rather the reviewing of every ruling that the system is making takes up too much time.
If and when they reach the point that people actually start trusting the system to make the correct ruling, that is when people stop getting so up in arms about this being a thing.
I totally understand that getting second guessed for every ruling you make and the validity thereof, but I personally find it rather hypocritical that now people are doing the exact same thing to this system.
As the speed and accuracy of this system increases over time, this type of ruling is ultimately the most fair.
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We're fact checking sports with this one🗣🗣🗣🗣
This really Serves things up!
It's a tricky thing, getting more precise with being able to see every detail of a game and tracking everything is such fine details with no margin of error based on the rules of the game. Someone else mentioned a sport using the Hawkeye system but the referee/umpire getting the final say, which seems fair, but I think another solution might be this. Before the game starts, both teams agree from the beginning if there should be a margin of grace and what that is. It could be a measure of distance or, likely better, a percentage of grace, so both sides know and have agreed on the accuracy of the system being used. This way something like the edge of a shoe barely crossing an imaginary line doesn't cost a team from winning a game.
Theres difference between a right decision and a fair decision.
football (soccer) could get rid of 99% of the robot controversy by eliminating the offsides rules and concept entirely.
Hawkeye started with Cricket, I believe. Sad you didn't even mention it.
I was expecting this video to at least mention cricket once as it's the first to introduce Hawk eye in the sports.
forget improvement every Arsenal fan would rather even play without referees
Its so hilarious people think this can replace ball spotting tech in football.
Newsflash people, we need more than the element of the ball spot to be determined.
This tech cannot determine when a play is dead and therefore we cannot utilize the tech to replace ball spotting in football as it will still require human intervention to cross reference time points.
Also, in Tennis and basketball, you have perfect lines to define the boundaries, footballs yardage markers are eyeballed on the field and nowhere near close to perfect, thats where a chain gang is more effective as the chain will measure the distance of 10 yards whether the on field yardage markers are not entirely accurate.
Due the 100+ yardage markers on the field including the goalines and out of bounds boundaries, this would require an insane amount of cameras and tech to be remotely close to accurate.
This will not work with the NFL.
Do you know that Maradona score a goal with his own hands! He was on cocaine also… 😂😂😂😂
I won’t be impressed until AI can replace judges in figure skating and synchronized swimming.
VAR is making just as many mistakes as the refs did. Or rather the people using it.
What a coincidence, those who reject this technology the most are those who benefit the most from human error.
I think the solution is simple, use cameras/tech on BALLS ONLY, never people. Offside = ref's call, out/in = camera's call
I watch the premier league all the time. The irritating part is that they take years to come up with a decision. Also sometimes the corruption gets in the way of the game. For example Liverpool V Tottenham. In that game Liverpool's Left Winger Luis Díaz scores but its flagged as offside when he was in fact onside. They didnt even draw lines to see if he was onside.
So sure it is useful to have VAR but the referees don't use it correctly and its always faulty.
They should allow it if a small inch of the players toe is offside because that doesnt give them a big advantage.
Im dissapointed that there was no quote from the immortal inventor Professor Hubert Farnsworth, "No Fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!" …Wich is also a gag on quantum mechanics 😛
Get all non-players off all the fields. Eye witnesses are terrible witnesses. If you don't like a truly fair game, your team probably cheats.
Im for the use tech of a call if its critical. Not for every call.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
My autism loves accuracy over human judgement
The people who want less tech are chiefs fans who rely on bribing the refs to win(probably not but it’s funny how bad calls can be in their games)
Huge miss by not tackling baseball. I’ll explain.
The sport has been around for so long without tech to help call Balls and Strikes, but now people want tech to do just that. But here’s the thing. A great player is somewhat defined by how good they technically play the game but also how they adjust to the umpires. How a pitcher/hitter understands the Umpire’s strike zone and adjusts.
So sure, a computer could ensure that by the rules a ball/strike is always to the letter of the Rule. But it would take away something that has made the elite players the elite players. Therefore, it would harm the game—as we know and understand it—itself.
Excellent reporting.
The whole purpose of a referee and umpire and linesmen in certain sports is to be impartial judges of where the ball landed.
If they had cameras when these sports were invented, linesmen and other such would not have been employed.
VAR ruined the fun of arguing with people with the ref calls and programs like AFTV are just not as fun with VAR
that dez bryant call against green bay will forever haunt me
For me, any automated system sucks when the game is paused. Let it decide and let the game continue. It's very frustrating to watch the same thing over and over again and wait for the referees to make a decision, in some cases for up to 5 minutes. It makes people frustrated and the players get disconnected from the game, both mentally and physically.
technology makes it fair. It might not be 100% accurate but the margin of error is equal to everyone. Same event is called always in the same way so nobody can take advantage of the mistake exclusively.
3:59 "it's not accurate is not the problem,my fello footballsoccer fan hate it that's it's too accurate.some offside that even ref cannot see.😂
Edit: leverkusen😢😂😂
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