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[Haberstroh] Chris Paul’s teams have been favored in 15 of 20 playoff games with Foster officiating. They went 3-17 and lost by an average of 11.2 points. (alien.top)

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Haberstroh wrote an article about CP3 and Foster on his substack but he tweeted out this stat and it's astounding.

https://twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/1727596935534559437

reddit wants me to add more thoughts so I'll just add that Scott Foster is closely tied with a corrupt gambling ref and shouldn't have been allowed to officiate for the last 20 years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/scott-foster-recipient-of-134-tim-donaghy-phone-calls-refereeing-celtics-heat-game-3/

Foster is the official who received 134 phone calls from disgraced referee Tim Donaghy between October 2006 and April 2007, as originally reported by FOX News. That was the same period during which Donaghy admitted to betting on NBA games. The report said that Donaghy called Foster more than any other ref and that he didn't call any other official more than 13 times.

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[–] sir_alvarex@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yea I've watched the last 4 or so of these playoff games. The problem is Foster doesn't call Chris' flopping. Paul then gets mad, and this affects his game. When he plays poorly, he gets chirpy and his team generally plays worse.

Fosters crew generally calls fouls that are above the waist. Paul likes to reach and poke guys above the waist on defense. Didn't watch last night to have recent context, but Paul has an axe to grind.

It's weird to me tho that many acknowledge Paul flops and complains to the refs all the time. So the one ref that doesn't put up with his bullshit is called crooked. And we are supposed to take Paul's comments as gospel.

As for everyone saying, "betting lines change when Foster refs, how is that not significant?" Betting lines are based both on the likely outcome of a game combined with the rate of betting seen on a game. So, if Foster games see more betting on Paul losing than normal, the line will shift to entice betting the opposite direction. This way, the bookies don't lose all their money. Even if the stats say Foster alters the outcome of games for Paul teams, since Foster is in Paul's head and generally plays like shit in those games, is it a surprise that Vegas would reflect this?