A Professional Gambler's Take on Doc

[KelticFan]

Still though, if gamblers are busy compiling data on such things as referees, and clearly considering their influence on the outcomes of games in their analysis, then why aren't there more mainstream non-gambling outlets that keep referee statistics and make them available to fans to consider the performance of the officials? Maybe I just am not aware of them, but I think such publicly available stats would go a long way to assuage some fan doubts about the nba's integrity.

There are already some sites that have these statistics:

http://www.covers.com/pageLoader/pageLoader.aspx?page=/data/nba/referees/referees.html&t=0

As someone noted in a Boston Globe chat with Marc Spears and Gary Dzen, the #1 and #4 most home-friendly referees are working tonight's game.

EDIT: From the AOL Fanhouse site, who apparently looked at the same issue:

While two of the officials are near the top of the homer list, Steve Javie is at the bottom of it. Not only does he rank 59 out of 62 refs listed, but Javie's the crew chief.

So, perhaps there's some hope.