Poll-Video Replay

[logank013]

Originally Posted by gblake

LoganK - What you wrote made sense, but you left something out.

When would the stronghold referees look at the video?

Would each match be followed by 1-5 minutes of hectic searching through the video by each ref as they attempted to double-check all the calls that they remember might have needed a 2nd look?

Would refs slap a button, or do something similar, during the match to mark (in the recording) each spot in the video they wanted to examine post-match? If not, finding the spot(s) they want to review could be a hugely confusing memory test.

Similarly, each call they made (or didn't make), or scoring credit they awarded (or didn't award) would need to be correlated with the recording, so that they don't have to have memorized that info too.

In soccer, and in many other sports, refs get to stop the action to make a "call" (or the action stops for them (When the only ball goes out of bounds)). FRC is exactly the opposite situation; and that is a very important difference.

Back to the Yes/No poll ....

Thanks for pointing that out. I actually though of something for that but forgot to share it. I'm going to switch to American football now. They always say that they will send video reviews to New York to discuss about it.

Well, assuming we have live archive tools at each event (if we ever did video replay, I'd hope that they have that), send the archive directly (or however long it takes to archive) 1 or 2 other referees in a back room. They could review every match if they wanted to. It'd be tedious but it'd get things right. Or the back room could be used for only "challenge" calls. Then continue to play matches through the review and after the match has been reviewed, say the official outcome of the challenge in between matches.

The only issue with this is that it would require another referee volunteer.