It's Saturday, thus it is poll day!
One thing that all sports fans can agree on is Refs/Umps/Officials suck.
Sometimes I think blaming the referee is just whining, sometimes it is justified and sometimes it is just fun.
In the coming decades I expect all leagues will to some degree phase out human officiating. Baseball seems to be at the forefront of this, as they plan to have some degree of robot umpiring in place for balls and strikes as early as next season. I am sure all leagues will at least eventually use AI to assist on replay reviews.
How far should automated officiating go? Should we eventually have AI monitoring from 50 angles every play/player and get everything correct to letter of the rule book? (that would be bad news for some NFL teams that hold on every offensive play- I am not naming names)
No Robots- Human error is part of sport25.0%
Some robots- Replay review/challenges50.0%
All robots- Get it right every time. 25.0%
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