[EricH]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

When a field scoring fault is suggested, things become subjective by default. Yes, there are places where game design can reduce the number of subjective calls ref's have to make, but subjective calls, at least by the head ref, are unavoidable.

You know, it's really hard for the game designers--and the refs.

If everything is black and white/objective, everybody complains that they got screwed over because there should have been some leeway/room for judgement (or the ref missed the call), and that everything should be a judgement call.

If everything is a judgement/subjective call, everybody complains that they got screwed over because the refs' interpretation of the game rules was bad, and that everything should be black and white.

And if the two are mixed, everybody's complaining that the objective calls should be subjective, and the subjective should be objective, and the refs still miss/misinterpret everything, so the teams are screwed over!



Oh, and then someone is bound to bring up instant replay as the only cure-all (instead of what it actually is, one possible tool in the toolbox full of solutions to issues that some teams don't even realize exist). Cue everybody repeating their statements from above paragraphs, followed by debates as to feasibility/fairness/volunteer POV.