FairFootball
football as it should have been
This is an idealistic attempt to keep a record of football as it should have
been, that is without referee errors.
We correct the results of games that have been viciated
by such mistakes, based on TV displays of these games. We then keep rankings and
statistics based on these corrected results.
details about
The football referee errors problem
The FairFootball correction scheme
Of course, this
is not 100% right, it cannot be. Nobody can know what would have happened had
the referee decided correctly. In fact, there are cases when one can even say
that the result corrected this way is very unlikely to have happened. But we
believe 2 things: that our end results are fairer than the official ones; and
that our correction scheme is inherently right,
that is it goes as far as it can based on what we know.
Then, of
course, it may have flaws, we don't claim we are sure it is perfect (yet).
Should we find things can be done better, we will do our best to improve it.
Obviously, this
can be done only for games with a very good TV coverage, where the action can
be seen in good detail. But then, fortunately, these are just the games for
which it's most worth to be done.
For the time
being, we'll do it only for the
Champions League and the World Cup.
We hope you
will enjoy the ride into our world of football as it should have been, as much
as we can know it.