Video Review Needs to Happen Now

[EricH]

Blake, there's one other data point that I think could be useful in that analysis:

# of matches where video replay was available for use. That is, how many matches at the event in question could have possibly had a review? (Basically, how many matches did the event play? Unless, of course, it's elims-restricted, in which case it's how many elims matches were played.)

And the reason that that particular data point could be useful is that it will give a broad-spectrum picture of how used video replay could be, if available. Just as an example, if in 5 offseason events (that offer replay review) each with 50 matches replay is used 5 times and the call on the field is overturned* once, then you could say that there's a 2% use rate and when used, there's a 20% overturn rate--but overall, the overturn rate is 0.4% because only one call was overturned.

That sort of data can be used to figure out timing of events (and what the limits for review are) and ref performance. Both those numbers could be pretty important, the latter feeding into better ref crews if need be.


*Change of any sort to the result of the match--points, winner, you get the idea.


I'd suggest that "control" events track number of scoring changes (team or field staff initiated), and number of (denied, obviously) requests for review.