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This is just the beginning….

Case in point: 3 big questions

Here’s some of Donaghy’s stats:

Home Team Against the Spread: 30-41-3
He was in the bottom 13.3 % of all refs in this category, road teams had to love him, it was all about the spread. Scary thing is that 7 refs were worse, including Eddie Rush.

Over/Under
He was in the top 5% of all refs in the category (43-29 O/U). Jim Clark & Olandis pool were the only worse. 65% of the time the over was the way to go when he was officiating.

Compare to his stats from 2005-206
Home Team Against the Spread: The improbably perfect 32-32-2
Over/Under 36-30 in favor of the over.

In 2004-2005:
Home team ATS: 35-26-4
Over/Under in 2004-2005 was 29-35

In 2003-2004:
Home team ATS: 35-35-0
Over/Under: 30-39

h/t: nbarefssuck.com

How about this for referee Tim Donaghy and his crew during the 2006-2007 season (according to Stats LLC):

Technical fouls called – 1st
Personal fouls called – 4th
Free throws ordered – 3rd
Fouling out players – 2nd

In 68 games Donaghy officiated during the 2006-2007 season, 34 players fouled out – meaning the player was called for six fouls and forced to exit the game. The league average is 37 foul-outs per 100 games.

Donaghy averaged 2.6 technical foul calls a game – with 177 total called in games he worked, 20 more than the No. 2 ref, Ken Mauer

h/t: ny post

This is a pretty cool idea, I think…

Except he forgot all of Yi’s peeps.

This could be bad.

I don’t expect Mark Cuban to be rubbing his hands together with a wry grin.   Well….maybe.

Haha.

Nice, humorous article here by Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist Jim Stingl.

I echo the sentiments of the Chinese basketball fan cited in the article:

…most Chinese fans want him to cut the crap and join the Bucks now.