[TheFarm07]

Defender moving with Haley falls over backwards without Haley initiating contact, Haley gets the charge, meanwhile Young can lower her shoulder into a defender and knock her over and we get called for the block, and the announcers praise her for creating the contact. BTW, that’s a charge in the NBA—they changed the rule to disallow lunging into the defender.

A topic for another thread perhaps and obviously complaining about the refs is an entrenched sports tradition, but just wondering will that always be a part of sports with contact, like basketball and football? Will there be technology, such as with AI, that we can someday take the human judgment (and its vulnerabilities to biasness) out of the equation?

[TheFarm07]

Defender moving with Haley falls over backwards without Haley initiating contact, Haley gets the charge, meanwhile Young can lower her shoulder into a defender and knock her over and we get called for the block, and the announcers praise her for creating the contact. BTW, that’s a charge in the NBA—they changed the rule to disallow lunging into the defender.

A topic for another thread perhaps and obviously complaining about the refs is an entrenched sports tradition, but just wondering will that always be a part of sports with contact, like basketball and football? Will there be technology, such as with AI, that we can someday take the human judgment (and its vulnerabilities to biasness) out of the equation?