What are the advantages and disadvantages of computer in sports?

Answer 1

Soccer Goal Line TechnologyThere has been a need for goal line technology in soccer, particularly as TV replays are showing in retrospect wrong decisions by the referee. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has laid down four criteria that they want to see in goal-line systems:

• The technology should only apply to goal-line decisions.
• The system must be 100 per cent accurate.
• The signal sent to the referee must be instantaneous.
• The signal is only communicated to the match officials.

A promising prospect has been a "smartball" loaded with an computer chip, jointly developed by German companies Cairos Technologies and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, an engineering research and software development company, along with the Adidas athletic clothing and shoe company. The companies' technology uses a network of receivers around the field designed to track the ball's precise position in real time - including exactly when it has fully passed the goal line. That information would be relayed in less than a second to a watch-like device worn by the refere

Answer 2

Advantages:

- more fairer games (video referee)

- better accuracy of drug testing

- training mechanisms (advantages players)

Disadvantages:

- glitches in video referee

- slows doing the speed of the game

- poor nations may not be able to afford training mechanisms advantaging rich nations

Answer 3

Computers allow much easier stats tracking, databasing, and statistics. It also allows for modeling which could be considered a disadvantage or advantage. Computers can also enforce rules that would be subjective if enforced by humans, such as the strike zone in Baseball. This can also be considered a disadvantage or advantage.