Week 4 Referee Assignment (1 Viewer)

[GwachiSaint]

Alright, this was liked last time so I'm going to go ahead and do this again.

Pete Morelli is our ref this week.
Pete Morelli NFL Official Statistics | Pro-Football-Reference.com

Let's start checking out his stats, shall we?
Home Games: Record: 8-8
Numbers are Pts by Opposition, Penalties by Opposition, Penalty Yardage by Opposition, Points by Team, Penalties by Team, Penalty Yardage by Team.

December 24, 2017 New Orleans Saints Atlanta Falcons Referee 13 10 91 23 3 30 W
September 26, 2016 New Orleans Saints Atlanta Falcons Referee 45 4 35 32 5 75 L
December 21, 2015 New Orleans Saints Detroit LionsReferee 35 10 92 27 6 28 L
October 31, 2010 New Orleans Saints Pittsburgh SteelersReferee 10 4 38 20 3 35 W
January 24, 2010 New Orleans Saints Minnesota VikingsReferee 28 5 32 31 9 88 W
November 30, 2009 New Orleans Saints New England Patriots Referee 17 0 0 38 4 36 W
December 23, 2007 New Orleans Saints Philadelphia Eagles Referee 38 4 29 23 6 64 L
December 4, 2005 New Orleans Saints Tampa Bay Buccaneers Referee 10 5 26 3 5 35 L
December 14, 2003 New Orleans Saints New York Giants Referee 7 7 70 45 7 55 W
September 14, 2003 New Orleans Saints Houston Texans Referee 10 11 86 31 9 78 W
October 27, 2002 New Orleans Saints Atlanta Falcons Field Judge 37 10 95 35 9 96 L
December 2, 2001 New Orleans Saints Carolina Panthers Field Judge 23 3 21 27 10 85 W
October 7, 2001 New Orleans Saints Minnesota Vikings Field Judge 15 12 116 28 8 65 W
November 19, 2000 New Orleans Saints Oakland Raiders Field Judge 31 5 32 22 12 93 L
September 3, 2000 New Orleans Saints Detroit Lions Field Judge 14 8 74 10 12 89 L
October 31, 1999 New Orleans Saints Cleveland Browns Field Judge 21 8 64 16 6 38 L​

Away Games: Record: 3-4

November 17, 2016 Carolina Panthers New Orleans Saints Referee 20 6 48 23 6 45 L
November 30, 2014 Pittsburgh Steelers New Orleans Saints Referee 35 11 77 32 5 28 W
November 18, 2012 Oakland Raiders New Orleans Saints Referee 38 11 109 17 4 40 W
October 19, 2008 Carolina Panthers New Orleans Saints Referee 7 3 30 30 3 29 L
September 17, 2006 Green Bay Packers New Orleans Saints Referee 34 2 14 27 5 31 W
September 25, 2005 Minnesota Vikings New Orleans Saints Referee 16 14 84 33 8 60 L
November 7, 2004 San Diego Chargers New Orleans Saints Referee 17 10 117 43 5 32 L
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As a counter point I didn't include the last time, the Giants are 12-5 with him when they're away, and 2-1 when they're at home.
He has a lot more games called for us, including one game every fan should notice (Jan 24, 2010) but on Away games, we average 8 Penalties, with the opposing team receiving an average of 5 penalties per game.

His Home team win% average is 3% lower than league average, since he's been reffing.

His crew is:
R 135 Pete Morelli 22 St. Mary’s retired high school principal†
U 54 Steve Woods 2 McAulay Wabash financial advisor
DJ 22 Steve Stelljes 17 * Friends business planning manager
LJ 45 Jeff Seeman 17 Parry Minnesota brokerage sales
FJ 36 Anthony Jeffries 1 NA Alabama-Birmingham medical sales
SJ 41 Boris Cheek 23 * Morgan State director of operations and management†
BJ 61 Keith Ferguson 19 Hussey San Jose State sales

• Replay official: Brian Matoren
• Replay assistant: Matt Sumstine

I'm a bit under the weather today, so let me know if there was any information you liked from the 1st one that you want to see here, I think I got most of it.

 

[44slayer]

Awful. That is one flag happy crew. 4 RTP penalties last night, and they picked up another one. Morelli's crew becomes part of the game instead of refereeing the game. Morelli and Blakeman are the worst.

 

[B-Train]

Thank you for the breakdown!

 

[Toad]

Get ready for a Flag fest.

 

[B-Train]

Awful. That is one flag happy crew. 4 RTP penalties last night, and they picked up another one. Morelli's crew becomes part of the game instead of refereeing the game. Morelli and Blakeman are the worst.

If you look at his Home Penalty percentage (42.86% this year) and his home win percentage (33% this year) it gives me a feeling that he's more objective and a little reasonable I would hope. The league average for Home Win % is 60%. I mean it's only three games in but still.

 

[Toad]

One positive is I think he was the ref for when we won NFC Champ. Vs Vikings.

 

[44slayer]

If you look at his Home Penalty percentage (42.86% this year) and his home win percentage (33% this year) it gives me a feeling that he's more objective and a little reasonable I would hope. The league average for Home Win % is 60%. I mean it's only three games in but still.

Yeah, I didn't mean he was biased. His crew just constantly seems to have 2 handfuls of yellow. That game was interesting last night, but the flags were out of control. Morelli got more air time than the football last night.

 

[BreesIsMyFather]

Wait so there's going to be more flags than last week?! Oh hell no.

 

[syracuse saint]

I heard that he dislocated his shoulder throwing flags last night.

 

[GwachiSaint]

Looking at the stats, he threw less flags on average before his crew was completely changed in 2016 (There's news about how it was disbanded due to blatant favoritism and missed calls.) The last two years he's thrown more flags on average, so yes, get ready for a flag fest. Most likely a few RTP's.

It looks like the 5 most called penalties are Offensive Holding, False Start, DPI, Illegal Block Above the Waist, and Defensive Holding.
The giants are the least penalized team, Tied for 10th on Opponent Penalties. (12/24)
We are the 15th most penalized team, sitting pretty in the middle, But tied for 3rd least amount of opponent penalties. (23/16)