I would have more respect for all this shit if the university that did this was Yale, Harvard, MIT or some top of the top level academic school, not fucking UTEP that is #16 Mathematics school in the state of Texas, #86 Mathematics school in the South and #304 in Mathematics in the U.S. 🤣🤣

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  2. Hey now, it’s not about how the research was conducted, whether there’s a chance it’s inaccurate, it’s if it tells them what they want to hear.

  3. I keep hearing about this study but can anyone provide a link? I haven’t seen it cited in a single post/article about it.

    Edit: ~~Found this link, it’s paywalled, though.~~ [~~https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/fire.70020~~](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/fire.70020) Seems to focus more on sports betting affecting real time subjective officiating, and the author uses the chiefs as their petri dish.

    Edit 2: Here is a non-paywalled link to the study. [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5150453](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5150453)

    EDIT 3: FUCKS SAKE. In the 4th paragraph they state they only compared defensive penalties between the Mahomes Era chiefs and the Brady Era Pats. They haven’t even compared to the OTHER 30 TEAMS IN THE NFL. How are people taking this cherry picked bullshit as gospel?

    The author even specifies “However, a major admitted limitation

    of our study is the lack of a valid natural experiment to explore the causal nature of our

    setting and thus our findings only admit correlative estimates.”

    Correlative estimate being a comparison between A & B instead of A,B,C,D,E,F,you fucking get it.

  4. Damn yall really just stay in denial with evidence prevented right in your face. And wonder why the rest of the country can’t stand the Chiefs and their fan base. Don’t even need a study to be done to see it if we’re being honest.

  7. I tried to look deeper into, but it’s pay walled for the actual study. Also there’s no p value for the abstract which always shoots off red flags. Also only using 8 years of data is laughable, definitely seems like someone trying to make data match their narrative. 

  8. For all the haters visiting this thread, at the very end of the article that has been passed around, they sneak in the fact that the Chiefs actually receive *fewer* than average “helpful penalties” during the regular season.

    Also, the penalty “research” was not done on a per-capita-based percentage of penalties, but was a “total number” percentage instead, which is significant because KC also participated in *far* more playoff games since 2015 than any other team (25), with the second most playing nearly 40% fewer games in the postseason (16).

    Nothing about the actual research suggests anything benefiting the Chiefs, but it is being misquoted and misrepresented by media outlets to get clicks. It’s all in bad faith.

  9. I had to look this up. I thought this was some kind of joke. Lo and behold this was an actual study. Pry was done by one of the students pursuing a business degree. This is funny. I find it funny that they mentioned Tom Brady and the Patriots.

    UTEP study shows NFL officiating favors Kansas City Chiefs | KTSM 9 News https://share.google/eKoKIGGfzWxKszar8

    Wonder what they would find if they conducted a study of the officiating during the Michael Jordan era of the NBA? 🤣🤣🤣

  10. The best and most popular team in any league is getting beneficial officiating. Not news. The chiefs, lakers, patriots, Celtics, Yankees, dodgers, etc. are gonna get beneficial officiating because officials assume they’re doing things better.

    The problem with any study like this is that a bunch of dumbasses will get ahold of it and draw the wrong conclusion.

    Where I always go back to is…why would the NFL and 29 other owners rig the whole system to benefit one of the smallest markets in the league?

  11. You guys are missing the bigger picture. They’re crying about the refs. We’re back and they know it

  12. There’s also a study that says vaccines cause autism. BS gets published all the time.

  13. As someone who goes to another school 45 minutes away from UTEP, well, UTEP is known for terrible academic standards and has been under threat of having their accreditation pulled

  15. I’ve always felt like skewing multi-level success toward Midwestern areas like Missouri/Kansas or Indiana is the fastest way to make a lot of money, get a lot of exposure, and do what’s best for the league as far as reaching large metropolitan areas of the country.

    It makes too much sense to push the BBQ capital of the world into the stratosphere over someplace like Times Square, DFW or Hollywood. We all should have seen this coming. We’ve been found out, unfortunately.

  16. Dumbest study ever. They focused on gross amount of what they deem “bad calls” or fortunate calls. They’ve played…by far the most post season football games in the last 6 years. Since they’re played the most games any one thing is going to add up. They need to focus on percent of the calls not gross. Amazing this was supposedly headed by a PHD.

  17. I talked to a friend from high school that lived in Detroit for a while. Diehard Lions fan.

    All he could talk about was the refs after the game. I asked him about the DB room. Refs. I asked if they’re prepared for TB next week. Refs. The Chiefs have seriously broken some brains across the NFL fandom.

    I think a big part is people get emotional with sports betting. It kills the enjoyment for many.

  18. If it was based on “economic pressures” then they would’ve “allowed” the three-peat. 

  20. This isn’t even a study this is what we call cherry picked statistical analysis. Nobody has critical thinking skills anymore it’s kinda sad. If you read through it there’s nothing damning about the article.

    Nobody even thinks to remember good teams play cleaner football with less penalties either. They jump to a conclusion without any definitive proof using an incredibly small sample size.

    Oh wait headlines and other random peoples opinions are always true my bad guys. Nobody ever click baits for money.

  21. As a native El Pasoan and former UTEP miner….What the Fuck!? I thought we were cool, backstabbers

  23. Nick Wright said he paid for the $18 24-hour subscription to read the study and it boiled to to basically “the study counted all games including the playoffs, the Chiefs play the most playoff games, so they play the most games overall, so they have the most penalties that help.” I can’t confirm or deny but if that’s true, it basically boils down to a clickbait title to a poorly conducted “study”.

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