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?
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Easily and NBA ref.
A bad home plate ump still gets like 92% of ball/strike calls correct.
Basketball is more subjective, and they have to run around the court constantly as the locations change. Easily NBA ref and that’s before we get to umps not behind home plate.
I would guess Umpire in baseball since Basketballs don’t normally move at 90+ mph.
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”.
NBA is harder
NBA refs have to run. Case closed.
MLB has the answer to accurately calling balls and strikes, they just choose not to use it. There are a lot more “close calls” in basketball, so the refs are always in position to piss off half of everybody
NBA ref. Way less variables and if the player wants to argue a call they know it’s usually a one way trip to the clubhouse unless the manager gets out there and takes the ejection first
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