Premier League Games 10/11 Nov

Dax777 said:
They still make mistakes, but by and large the top teams, us included, get favored.
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I think, if at all, it is a weighted favouritism. That is, they favour us in the mostly inconsequential elements, while often being indifferent in the consequential ones, hence the offside noncalls, red card (potentially season/career ending) challenges that were not penalised (or were penalised far too lightly), and very obvious penalty decisions not given, among other situations.

We do get the odd questionable call that many would argue affect a match, like the Sterling incident, but often those don’t actually impact the outcome of the match—many times we would have likely gone on to win, anyway. And the dubious calls we do get then become the ones the media and rival supporters use to justify the “City are favoured” arguments.

In the statistical analysis world this is a form of data skewing that you find when the originator is attempting to hide inherent bias (it’s also found in the financial realm when an entity is looking to obfuscate dodgy practices or transactions). It’s a muddying of the universe so that it is more difficult to isolate the irregularities.

I do not doubt we are fortunate at times, but when it really matters, we tend to be on the wrong end of questionable decisions. We often are just so good, we are able to succeed in spite of it (as we were in the league last year). But that is not always the case, as our experience in the CL shows.
 
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