Team-Level Referee Discrimination in the National Hockey League

Kevin Mongeon () and Neil Longley
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Kevin Mongeon: Brock University
Neil Longley: University of Massachusetts

A chapter in Breaking the Ice, 2017, pp 131-147 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Previous research on referee discrimination in penalty calling has been based on relative comparisons across race/ethnic groups, and does not discern whether the findings are based on players of a different or the same race/ethnicity. This paper tests for team-level discrimination amongst professional hockey referees, and finds that French-Canadian referees favor teams, in the form of fewer penalty calls, that have more French-Canadian players. The analysis is undertaken at penalty level to account for additional within-game referee biases and varying costs of player infractions across score margin game states.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67922-8_7

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