Bad Call: Technology's Attack on Referees and Umpires and How to Fix It

by Christopher Higgins, Harry Collins, Robert Evans

Book Overview

How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the consequences are--referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the illusion of perfect accuracy maintained.

Good call or bad call, referees and umpires have always had the final say in sports. Bad calls are more visible: plays are televised backward and forward and in slow motion. New technologies--the Hawk-Eye system used in tennis and cricket, for example, and the goal-line technology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534444
• ISBN13: 9780262534444
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher