Index

• Accuracy fetish, 7–8, 129–135
• “All evens out in the end
• American football, 121
  • and RINOWN, 91

• Baseball
  • compared to cricket, 23, 26 29–34, 50, 140–142, 151
  • technology in, 85
  • umpiring, 4, 9–12
• Botham, Ian, 91–92

• Capture devices, 21
• Counterfactual method, 103
• Cricket field lay out, 27
• Crime Scene Investigation (CSI), 133

• Dancing with the Stars, 13

• Epistemological privilege, 10–14, 17–20, 21, 22–23, 31, 35, 37–38, 70, 91–92, 94, 129, 135
• Errors, 41
  • bell-shaped curve, 42
  • distribution of, 42
  • mean deviation/error, 71–72
  • normal distribution, 43, 71–72
  • random, 41
  • systematic, 41

• “Flag on the play

• Galarraga, Armando, 3–4, 10
• Goal-line technology, 4–5
• Gower, David, 68

• Home team bias, 111–118
• Hot Spot, 34

• Intermediation, level of, 21–39
• International Tennis Federation (ITF), 76–78, 94, 132–133

• Jonkhoff, Henk, 74
• Joyce, Jim. See Galarraga, Armando
• Justice, 14–16
  • false transparency/show trial justice, 15–16
  • presumptive, 14–15
  • transparent, 14–15
  • transparent injustice, 15–16

• Lampard, Frank, disallowed goal, 123
• LBW or “leg before wicket,” 47–60, 63, 67–68, 84–85, 88–90, 131, 153

• Match of the Day (MoTD), 102–110, 119–122, 126
• Mather, George, 70

• Offside, technology used in MoTD, 102, 120–122
• Ontological authority, 10–14, 17, 19, 22–23, 25, 31, 33, 35, 37–39, 57, 70, 81, 83, 90–91, 93–94, 121, 129–130, 132, 135

• Premiership table, points differences, 100–117

• “Right if not wrong” (RINOWN), 90–95, 121–122, 125, 129–132

• Skidding tennis ball, 80–81
• Snicko, 22, 35, 36
• Strictly Come Dancing, 13

• Tennis Electronic Lines (TEL), 74–76
• Track estimators and Hawk-Eye, 38–39, 44–47

• Virtual reality, in tennis, 133