The paper defines RIM as the game-level sum of absolute win-probability changes from foul events and applies it to identify referee, team, and home/away patterns in NBA data after basic linear controls.
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The paper defines RIM as the game-level sum of absolute win-probability changes from foul events and applies it to identify referee, team, and home/away patterns in NBA data after basic linear controls.