By the way, heard Blazers sent the league ** TWENTY** calls from the game last night. Also told...

By the way, heard Blazers sent the league ** TWENTY** calls from the game last night. Also told "Dallas probably had another 20."
@johnhollinger

This was from yesterday, so it's a little old, but it's referencing the awful officiating from Friday night's game. I was just curious, though, what happens when the league gets videos of blown calls like these? Do they issue an apology or something? Also, do they keep a tally of which refs are screwing up the most, so they can keep refs accountable and eventually fire the ones that are complained about most often?

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Per and ESPN article a few years ago...

…the league keeps an internal running tally of:

Missed calls + blown calls

For each and every ref. This total for the season determines playoff assignments (if any). The refs with the lowest season totals get more post-season assignments.

by JordanLeDoux on Apr 11, 2010 9:42 PM PDT reply actions

That's interesting.

Being a Blazer fan is not exactly healthy.

by dpnim on Apr 11, 2010 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions

so maybe theres not a conspiracy.

maybe friday’s refs were just lazy bastards that didn’t want to work another 6 weeks, and were padding their vacation chances.

Skadoosh

by postup on Apr 11, 2010 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

at least that's the kind of work ethic-

that sounds like it’d go with being that incompetent at their job.

Skadoosh

by postup on Apr 11, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions

It's highly unlikely that there's a conspiracy.

It’s much more likely that Kenny Mauer is incompetent.

That’s essentially what the FBI decided about the 2002 WCF. The FBI spent a lot of time looking at the 2002 WCF as part of their Donaghy investigation, and their conclusion was the refs were incompetent, not that the league had directed anything.

by JordanLeDoux on Apr 11, 2010 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions