Some info on the CC in the UFL I found interesint:
"One replay crew will make all decisions to ensure accurate and consistent rulings. The Command Center can step in if an on-field ruling of a reviewable play is âobviously incorrect.â Among the plays deemed reviewable are personal foul penalties.
Blandino got a lot of TV time during XFL games last year, much to the consternation of some fans. The NFL still canât get some blatant calls correct, which often takes up a lot of airtime on Mondays rather than discussions of the games themselves. If the idea is to get the call right as often as possible, then taking the time for replay is a necessary evil. The UFLâs transparency in this regard, where viewers can see and hear the discussion of the call in real time, is as important as making sure the call is correct. Keep it short, be transparent, get it right is an enviable mantra for replay in football, and the UFL is off on the right foot in all three of those phases" âŚ
âŚand the problem with the CFL is we donât send people to see how it works. To check out other forms of successful video review, even in other sports, and use that to improve what they do.
For the sake of comparison, as some like me who follow the Premier League know, they had their issues with video review more than any other league in the UK and in Europe in the past few years, but go figure much like the CFL today
the Premier League issued a statement to return to the ORIGINAL âclear AND obviousâ standard for overrule of calls.
My goodness, all this time for review of the matter with a decision released on the same day on a Friday in August, that was NOT so hard was it!?
At least the CFL and others know now to get this much right when they should never have wavered from the original rules!
Exactly this is how video review shoud operate within any league and the key word is unequivocal:
âUnder new guidelines, while VAR will review penalty and foul incidents, it wonât suggest overturning decisions unless theyâre blatantly wrong. This ensures that the original call stands unless VAR identifies an unequivocal error.â
I did not catch ALL the calls, but it would seem to me that the Command Centre did have a good weekend for review of calls made on the field, though as I type this I can certainly still hear the echoes of the angry rants one way or the other about Alâs at Riders on Friday night.
Indeed, simply going back to clear AND obvious, or leave things be, has already accomplished much.
Thatâs fresh too when his last challenge was simply one out of spite after they correctly determined that the receiver trapped the ball for that âcatchâ to overrule the touchdown. That was no pass interference at all.
Hereâs a case in NCAA football this weekend when the correct call of incomplete pass was made on the field, but because that was not the angle consulted by the replay official, the call on the field was overturned to a touchdown reception.
It took the replay official over eight minutes to make this call mind you. Thatâs not how it works.
Also there were gambling implications for those who had the âover.â
Iâm not the only one who smells a rat, though regardless, if the error is not clear AND obvious, the call on the field should stand. The replay official involved on this one needs to be sent packing now.
The following article is not well-written overall, but it does include the indicative video clip, which does confirm the original correct call on the field of an incomplete pass.
All of it should be like that. What amazes me is - almost all of rugby can sync the footage so if they stop at the critical moment - they can run through the camera angles to see if there is a better view.
Calls donât take longâŚ
I cannot understand why and how the CFL allowed to Comand center to become so broken.
They changed what they can call and overrule after a few total melt down mistakes but now it seems it still is not doing the job I tended to do. I hope they fix this in the off season as it is apparent they have no clue what needs fixing or how to go about it at this moment in time.
I hope youâre right but the CFL has had a long history of ânot having a clueâ. If the CFL doesnât have a clue during the season, itâs hard to believe that theyâll suddenly become smarter during the off-season.
Really you would have thought that by this point they would have had a look at other sports and how their replay works.
Nothing in a fast paced game is ever going to be perfect, but at least spot the bad stuff.
I have said it before too. If Nascar can pick out a wrench leaving the pit box - then why cant we have offside, illegal motion, too many men, and no yards automated?
Thatâs the direction that other live sports and leagues have been going,
with also the use of technology known as âsemi-automatedâ systems,
which monitor proactively and alert the officials for certain potential calls such as offside or a ball crossing the goal line (or presumably other lines as to be determined).
For example, the CFL has used non-kicking balls with a microchip in them since 2023:
Right. Semi automatic meaning someone has to check it, but Nascar does the same. They were late late adopters on some things too. They were using timing loops in the track and sensors on the cars for many years before they finally stopped tracking laps on paper - one person with a stopwatch, counter, pen and a clipboard for each driverâŚ
It happened within our lifetimes and look just how much things have changed with many things improved.
The notion of some dude sitting there with a stopwatch and the rest to record times and compute average lap speeds was ânormalâ for much of our lives,
yet for at least the last decade is laughable and preposterous.
Itâs still the case at lower competition levels.
Itâs sort of like when some bojack claims he runs a 4.3 40-yard dash, of which there are many in any given large city especially who say they can beat Noah Lyles in a race as had claimed Tyreek Hill recently with the media blowing up that hot air,
but it was when his buddy held a stopwatch or used a cellphone stopwatch.
Thankfully weâve moved on from that nonsense too.
