Helsen,Gilis, and Weston (2006) do not err in questioning the optical error hypothesis as the only major account for explaining offside decision-making errors |
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| Authors: | Werner Helsen Bart Gilis Matthew Weston |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Biomedical Kinesiology , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Heverlee, Belgium Werner.helsen@faber.kuleuven.be;3. Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Biomedical Kinesiology , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Heverlee, Belgium;4. PGMOL, The FA Premier League , London, UK |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Oudejans, Bakker, and Beek (2007 Oudejans, R. R. D., Bakker, F. C. and Beek, P. J. 2007. Helsen, Gillis and Weston (2006) err in testing the optical error hypothesis. Journal of Sports Sciences, Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) recognize several relevant aspects of offside judgements in association football in the paper by Helsen, Gilis, and Weston (2006 Helsen, W. F., Gilis, B. and Weston, M. 2006. Errors in judging “offside” in football: Test of the optical error versus the perceptual flash-lag hypothesis. Journal of Sports Sciences, 24: 521–528. Taylor & Francis Online], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]). We agree that the existing knowledge base on offside assessment needs to be expanded for two reasons. First, from a theoretical point of view it is important to examine how assistant referees can learn to deal with the limitations of the human visual information processing system. Second, from a practical point of view it is relevant to understand better refereeing performances and to identify potential explanations for incorrect offside decisions that could impact on the final outcome of the game. Oudejans et al. (2007 Oudejans, R. R. D., Bakker, F. C. and Beek, P. J. 2007. Helsen, Gillis and Weston (2006) err in testing the optical error hypothesis. Journal of Sports Sciences, Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) believe we both misinterpreted the optical error hypothesis and that our data set was unsuited to test it. Below, we react to these comments. |
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| Keywords: | Offside decision-making skills assistant referees |
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