What happens when the crowd disappears

1:44:07>> No, zero. >> And they confirmed that referee bias. They looked at 7,000 matches across Europe and they showed that when the crowd goes silent, there's no crowd. The referee bias for the home team is eliminated. That's incredible. >> Yeah. >> So, and again, this anecdotally everyone's believed this to be true. Yeah. Forever. It's like this is why homefield advantage is even a concept. >> Yeah. Right. It's like a homefield advantage not only in the psyche of the players, but now they're showing it's in the psyche of the referee himself or herself. >> There's bias in the >> I thought this was so cool. >> No, that's really good because again you we will we will probably never really ever get

1:44:48>> No, we're never going to get that experiment with these. >> I mean, God willing, right? Like let's hope so, >> right? Right. Especially with the SK because you could argue like, oh well, one team can be banned from having fans in the stands for some period of time. But we're saying this was everybody. >> Yeah. for a whole year, >> right? And the amount of data that they've used, it's like 5,000 games, 7,000 games. Now you're getting a statistically significant effect. >> So >> people are so glad. >> Yeah. I thought it was good cuz they also built on the other one. It was like, well, let's let's double and and so so the point is it was positive in the study where the fans were there >> and then you took away the fans >> when the fans were not there, which means understandably the rest want to get home safe. >> Yeah. And so they like, you know, might

1:45:30be a little and so >> and just like psychologically, right? Like there's something in your psyche when like there's there's like 10 like 50,000 people booing you. You don't you don't want it, >> right? Even though you're supposed to be like neutral and whatever, there's going to be part of you that wants to be liked by the 70,000 people, right? That you want to hear cheers for when you do this and you say no penalty [laughter] or penalty or whatever, right? So >> this is going to do numbers for the Argentina bias community. >> Yeah. So that's my theory which I think and I think it's a new theory and so this is an out for FIFA because FIFA doesn't have anything to do with this. This is just like the home field

1:46:11advantage that Argentina has. Again, this is terrible data science because clearly it didn't work for America, >> right? However, one would argue that our fans don't instill the same fear in referees that footballing nation fans do. >> Fair. >> The English fans, the Argentinian fans, like these Americans, they're they can't even USA. Who's scared of that? >> You know what I mean? >> Yeah. And Yeah. [laughter] And then we stop caring. >> Yeah. Right. Immediately they're not going to do anything. They're going to watch the TV. Um,