I don't think it's underworld fixing as that would be a colossal scheme, but rather a league looking to build on storylines. Anyway, it'd probably be pretty easy to do a study and see abnormalities such as variation between refs in point differential in the games they've officiated and what the boxplot looks like (ref to ref), one plot showing the differential the last say, 7 minutes of the game, down to the last 1 minute of the game. Or you could look at the number of calls in the game by them in the last 6 minutes person to person. You'd probably see an irregularity. Something like that written as an expose would really put the league on their feet to not conduct themselves like this anymore. It's really annoying to watch.
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