I like this approach from the NBA, and it will definitely cut down on bogus calls during the big time playoff games.
According to ESPN.com, the NBA will begin revealing whether it determined referees’ crunch-time calls to be right or wrong.
Starting Monday and continuing throughout the playoffs, the league will release play-by-play reports of all calls and relevant no-calls in the final minutes of close games. Such information had only been shared only internally.
Each play is reviewed by a senior basketball operations manager or senior referee manager. The reports will say how the play was graded — correct or incorrect — and will be accompanied by a comment and video link. The reports will be posted at NBA.com/official and also on the league’s media site.
“Our policy in the past was pretty much to wait until we had something that was controversial enough to really garner a lot of interest and we didn’t think that that was a practical approach,” NBA executive vice president of referee operations Mike Bantom said. “And it also wasn’t very fair because they always tended to be errors that were made, so we tried to come up with a system that would allow us to provide some insight into our process and set a criteria that would allow us to be more standardized and more consistent.”
The league emphasized that the referees had input into the plans and welcomed the change from the league’s former policy of announcing only when calls were incorrect.