Table 2.
Cross-tabulation of the decisions made by the referees and expert observers.
| Referees | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foul | Shooting Foul |
Offensive Foul |
Travelling | No Call |
Flagrant | Out | Total | ||
| Expert Observers | |||||||||
| Foul | 16 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 34 | |
| Shooting Foul |
1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 30 | |
| Offensive Foul |
6 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 41 | |
| Travelling | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| No Call | 25 | 46 | 14 | 3 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 151 | |
| Flagrant | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | |
| Goaltending | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Flop | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Total | 51 | 68 | 34 | 8 | 114 | 7 | 1 | 283 | |
Note: The officiating decisions in Table 2 were identified by either referees or expert observers, and categorized as follows:
Foul (referees and experts): Illegal personal contact with a player in offense not in the act of shooting;
Shooting foul (referees and experts): Illegal personal contact with a player in offense in the act of shooting;
Offensive foul (referees and experts): Illegal personal contact with a player in defence;
Travelling (referees and experts): A player's illegal movement while holding a live ball;
No call (referees and experts): Ignored the situation/no refereeing decision was required;
Flagrant (referees and experts): An unsportsmanlike foul, contact with an opponent, illegitimately attempting to directly play the ball within the spirit and intent of the rules;
Out (referees): A player with the ball is out-of-bounds/causes the ball to go out-of-bounds;
Goaltending (experts): Situation during a shot when a player touches the ball while it is completely above the level of the ring on its downward flight to the basket or after it has touched the backboard;
Flop (experts): Deceptive behaviour of a player who intentionally falls after little or no physical contact by an opposing player in order to receive a foul.