The Question is Not Whether Humans Make Decisional Errors, But How to Compensate for Them By Donald R. Philbin, Jr. ESPN recently dubbed baseball umpire Tim McClelland’s missed calls in Game 4 of the American League playoffs as “the worst umpiring performance at an Angels games since Leslie Nielsen in ‘The Naked Gun.’”1 While his mistakes were not outcome determinative, they rekindled calls for the use of instant replay. Those of us who have spent […]