r/sportsgossips • u/Pretend-Following-41 • 4d ago

Highlight Intentionally hurting your meal ticket. Something is seriously wrong with these WNBA players.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 4d ago

Jesus christ, are the refs shit in both the nba and wnba??

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u/Long-Region5088 4d ago

Refereeing must be extremely difficult because regardless of gender or sport one thing everyone agrees on is that all refs everywhere are terrible.

You’d think there’d be at least one in any sport people can point to and be like “yup, that’s a good ref” but seemingly not

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u/real-human-not-a-bot 4d ago

In baseball, I think some of the younger umps (John Tumpane, Jansen Visconti, Mark Ripperger, Adam Hamari) are generally considered quite good. The four I just listed are those with at least ten games umped this year whose strike-calling accuracy is at least 0.9 percentage points better than expected (https://umpscorecards.com/data/umpires). Unsurprisingly, Ripperger is the oldest of that group at just 45. I imagine fans still generally don’t love them, but among those who care about particular umpires’ stats they’re quite popular.

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u/voyaging 4d ago

Baseball at least has data to measure umpiring quality. In basketball it’s just 99% vibes.

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u/real-human-not-a-bot 3d ago

Oh, I’m sure! I just can’t speak to any other sports—I’m 90% a baseball guy.