- Title
- Home advantage and LBW decisions : the contribution of umpiring to the home-ground (dis)advantage in cricket
- Creator
- Adie, Joshua; Renshaw, Ian; Polman, Remco; Mann, David
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/191492
- Identifier
- vital:17825
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2022.01.009
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-2440 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Objectives: This study aimed to determine whether elite cricket umpires' decisions contribute to home advantage via leg-before-wicket decisions. Design: Leg-before-wicket decisions (n = 4971) from actual elite level cricket matches in Australia between 2009 and 2016 were analysed using a binomial logistic regression to predict the umpires' leg-before-wicket decisions. Methods: Regressions were performed to determine whether the batter's team (home or away) influenced the likelihood that the umpire would give them out leg-before-wicket. Results: We found no evidence of home advantage in umpires' leg-before-wicket decisions. In fact, we found evidence that umpires in some instances disadvantage the home team. Conclusions: We suggest that the increased professionalism of sports officials, and the scrutiny they are placed under, may lead umpires to reduce or even overcompensate for any existing biases in their decision making. © 2022 Sports Medicine Australia
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 25, no. 6 (2022), p. 520-523
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Sports Medicine Australia
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3202 Clinical sciences; 4207 Sports science and exercise; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; Decision-making; Home disadvantage; Referee bias; Sports officiating
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- Reviewed
- Funder
- The research was supported by a QUT Postgraduate Research Scholarship to the lead author.The research was supported by a QUT Postgraduate Research Scholarship to the lead author. The authors wish to thank Cricket Australia for providing the data for this study
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