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Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket

Sacheti, Abhinav; Gregory-Smith, Ian; Paton, David

Authors

Abhinav Sacheti

Ian Gregory-Smith



Abstract

We use data on leg before wicket decisions from 1000 test cricket matches to quantify the systematic bias by officials (umpires) to favour home teams. We exploit recent changes in the regulation of test cricket as a series of natural experiments to help to identify whether social pressure from crowds has a causal effect on home bias. Using negative binomial regressions, we find that home umpires favour home teams and that this effect is more pronounced in the later stages of matches.

Citation

Sacheti, A., Gregory-Smith, I., & Paton, D. (2015). Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 178(3), 741-755. doi:10.1111/rssa.12086

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 5, 2014
Online Publication Date Sep 30, 2014
Publication Date 2015-06
Deposit Date Nov 23, 2018
Journal Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)
Print ISSN 0964-1998
Electronic ISSN 1467-985X
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 178
Issue 3
Pages 741-755
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12086
Keywords Bias; Cricket; Favouritism; Negative binomial
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1303219
Publisher URL https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/rssa.12086