Home and Away Fouls

[WhichReligionIsRight]

 

[MiloTalon13]

Indiana is a surprise for sure.
Iowa is a little surprising, does Fran's complaining help?

Who is in charge?

https://bigten.org/staff.aspx?staff...en Conference's senior director, officiating.

 

[scarlet night]

It’s interesting but in a reply they said it includes out of conference games. I think Big Ten play only would be more interesting.

 

[L&IC]

More likely to be losing away and committing fouls in the last minute. I think msu committed 5 on us in the last two minutes. Would like to see the first 38 minutes.

 

[ScooterSports]

I’m not liking that Illinois difference for tomorrow

 

[tm_nj]

It is so much not the number of fouls. It is the timing of the fouls. Fouls can even up after a team is trying to catch up near the end of a game

 

[RU848789]

Only people who might be surprised are the ones who think we get called for far more fouls than any other team. And more fouls away vs. home for almost everyone seems logical if one assumes teams are behind and fouling more often on the road (plus there has been documented evidence in most sports that home teams get a slight whistle benefit, due to the crowd).

 

[ScarletDave]

Agree that would like to see this study on B1G only games, and in the first 38 minutes

 

[G- RUnit]

Exactly! ^^^^ And it’s so much more then just fouls called. It’s also when fouls are called. It’s also the fouls that aren’t called. It’s also the type of fouls called.

OSU this year has not evened out.

Officiating is just as much a factor as any other and the 1950’s cliche that “It evens out in the end” or no use complaining about it because you can’t do anything about it are extremely short sighted IMHO.

 

[ruhoops21]

It’s also in reference to the calls against the other team. And free throw differential. These numbers tell a very incomplete story

 

[fluoxetine]

My four factor model has FTR home court advantage at 4.15%.. meaning that all else equal home teams tend to shoot 4.15% (of field goal attempts) more than road teams, which is in the neighborhood of 2.4 extra FTA per game for a home team.

Some of this will be from officiating, some will be from playing better

 

[RUChoppin]

Just looking at Rutgers and Illinois in conference play, since that's today's game (I'll try to do a more complete comparison on conference games later):

Rutgers:
PF: 14.7 Home / 18.7 Away
FTA: 19.6 Home / 11.3 Away
Opp PF: 18 Home / 13.7 Away
Opp FTA: 20.4 Home / 12.0 Away

Notes:
- Apparently refs blow the whistle for shooting fouls much more often at the RAC. Both RU and our opponents get an additional 8 FTs at the RAC than they in our away games at other venues.
- It seems like we get away with a lot more non-shooting contact at home, too. 14.7 PF, but result in 20.4 FTA for our opponents.... while on the road, we get whistled for 18.7 PF, which result in only 12.0 FTA
- At home we've been called for 3.3 fewer fouls per game than our opponents, but on the road we get called for 5.0 more per game.... for an 8.3 PF swing between home and away.
- Overall, on the road, we get whistled for about 5.0 more fouls than our opponent, but shoot just 0.7 fewer FTs.

Illinois:
PF: 12.8 Home / 20.8 Away
FTA: 19.8 Home / 15.2 Away
Opp PF: 18 Home / 16.7 Away
Opp FTA: 13.0 Home / 21.8 Away

Notes:
- At home, Illinois has been called for 5.2 fewer fouls than their opponent, but on the road they get called for 4.1 more per game... for a 9.3 PF swing between home and away
- Overall, at home, Illinois gets whistled for 5.2 fewer fouls than their opponent but shoot 6.8 more FTs

 

[richthedentist]

Exactly! ^^^^ And it’s so much more then just fouls called. It’s also when fouls are called. It’s also the fouls that aren’t called. It’s also the type of fouls called.

OSU this year has not evened out.

Officiating is just as much a factor as any other and the 1950’s cliche that “It evens out in the end” or no use complaining about it because you can’t do anything about it are extremely short sighted IMHO.

Right OSU will never even out and the way the BIG is so bunched that loss is/was beyond crucial!!