What advantage is being gained is largely dependent on which team would be scoring the goal, as we have seen being 5 yards off side is not gaining an advantage if you are a United player, but being 5 cm offside is gaining an advantage if you are a City player.The whole threshold of offside is bollocks,going down to a microscopic level to determine if he’s on or off,yes I know technically someone could be offside after three minutes of checking and it’s a toenail but what advantage is actually gained ffs..
Edited for completenessWhat advantage is being gained is largely dependent on which team would be scoring the goal, as we have seen being 5 yards off side is not gaining an advantage if you are a United player, but being 1 mm offside is gaining an advantage if you are a City player.
I was going for poetic symmetry…Edited for completeness
I was stating that there isn't 5-6 frames they could have picked with semi auto offside it's 1 frame only and thats the frame closest to the point of impact on the ball. It's a maths problem, all the var ref has to do if pick which touch could cause the offside and the computer does the rest.I'm not so sure. The FIFA inertia sensor operates at a higher frequency than the cameras, which determine the player data points, operate. So most offsides will be determined between camera frames. FIFA say they will interpolate an exact position but I am calling bullshit on that one. UEFA SAOT doesn't even have an inertia sensor in the ball (at least it didn't last year). It was all done from camera imagery.
Also, the data points on the player are just captured from camera imagery. They aren't wearing any sexy sensor equipment. One data point in the knee for example. So the data point isn't the actual extremity of the knee, front or back, but a position inside it. A few cms out. Just basing this on explanations from FIFA (image of the 39 data points). If that image is wrong, I may be wrong.
Good post mate.I hate VAR with a passion. It's taken away soooo much more from football than it gives.
The best thing technology have given us in recent times is goal line technology. It's pretty much completely accurate, and fairly instantaneous. It's brilliant, and I think anything new coming in has to reach the same standard. So I do believe off side technology will become automated at some point in the near future, and that will be great too.
For all of footballs subjective decisions, for which there are many of them as we know, we've got pigmol trying to figure out the best way to work VAR and it's constantly changing as a bunch of subjective decisions get put under the microscope each week, with Pigmol trying to react every few months to tweak how the game should be reffed and VARd.
Well, this situation ain't ever changing, they're just gonna keep going round and round in circles trying to find this holy grail of perfect VAR system for football that simply does not exist.
I prefer the days of going completely mental, with a quick half glance at the lino for a flag up, before carrying on with my celebrations when a goal goes in.
The poll on here about referees getting worse, I've voted yes, but I do have some sympathy for them.
I honestly don't think they know whether they're coming or going, as the rules are tweaked, the interpretations are changed, and I think half the time they lazily will just not give a decision on the expectation that VAR will mop it up for them.
I'm more of a reader on here, than a poster, and especially not long rants, but omg I fucking hate VAR!