There is a bias in favor of home teams -- shows Dr. Pelechrinis in a Nature Scientific Reports Publication

DINS faculty member Dr. Konstantinos Pelechrinis, in a recent paper in Nature, shows that there is an implicit bias in refereeing in favor of home teams and sometimes in favor of some specific players. See more in the paper available at this link. The paper is titled "Quantifying implicit biases in refereeing using NBA referees as a testbed" and was published on March 22, 2023.