Football’s expansion of VAR

With the World Cup just around the corner with brand new purpose built stadiums for the games, there was always going to be some new technology trialed in order to make the game better and offer additional tools to either teams or game staff – there will be plenty of opportunities for punters to get involved with World Cup betting opportunities at thebestcasinos.co.uk, and may be able to take unique insights from the new technology that will be trialed ahead and utilized during the world cup.

The tech being dubbed as ‘robot referees’ isn’t as ominous as it sounds and is instead an expansion on the currently active VAR system – first introduced a few years ago it has come under lots of criticism during its time of activity – the time it takes to process and evaluate the footage can often disrupt the flow of play as players wait for a referee decision, and this decision process can sometimes be quite controversial too with referees receiving backlash for making what many fans assume to be the wrong decision – but that’s all part of the human factor of the sport.

In an effort to streamline the VAR process, the new technology will feature detailed limb-tracking and hopefully provide real-time decisions on calls for offsides and similar infractions whilst also boasting the ability to provide coaching and medical staff with unique insights into the game as well as providing more information for the fans too – in order to achieve this, the stadiums will have a number of cameras mounted in the roofing that will give a birds-eye view of the pitch, the limb tracking can follow up to 29-limb points per player on the field to provide an immediate decision on player positioning and hopefully cutting out the time required for decisions to make it to the field.

For fans hoping to see the technology in league play, it might still be some time away as the testing will be stringent and won’t be utilized during real match days – given it took a few years of trial and error to bring VAR into a real match environment and still faced issues, officials will likely want to make sure any creases are ironed out and that this system can perform to its full potential before being rolled out completely, but finding success here could bring a whole new system to football and lead to not only more fair and timely decisions, but some other qualities behind the scenes for teams as a whole to analyze further.

Football’s expansion of VAR