Is it harder working as an NBA referee or an MLB referee? Based on the difficulty of the responsibility. It seems like both sports have players that complain about ____ ref is the worst all the time.
What is job harder? Telling the difference between a foul and no-call? Or the difference between a strike and a ball?
i’ve officiated both a lot, definitely basketball. the only real subjective call in baseball is balls and strikes. pretty much everything else has a pretty definitive call to be made. not that the umps always get it right, but you can almost always look at replay and have a pretty good idea what the call should be.
10 people could watch the same drive in the nba and some might think there’s a travel, some might think there’s an offensive foul, so might think there’s a defensive foul, and some might think the whole play is clean. and depending how the game has been officiated up to that moment, any one of them could be “right”.