We study two important aspects of the home advantage for ice hockey. First we study team
and season level data to uncover systematic variation in the home advantage across teams …

Home advantages exist throughout every sport and can be seen in all levels of play.
However literature on the topic has been inconsistent. Some support the theory of a home …

Objectives The possibility that home teams might choke in decisive games of championship
series was first proposed by Baumeister and Steinhilber in 1984. Their hypothesis was that …

Although the home team advantage is known to exist in many sports, there are nuances of
the advantage that are less well understood. In this paper, we investigate various aspects of …

Recently it was reported that in the NBA as a whole, two thirds of the home advantage which
teams enjoy when playing at home is accumulated in the first quarter. Home advantage can …

We examined the impact of home-field advantage in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. We defined
home-field advantage as winning more than 50% of the home games. Additionally, we took …

The home advantage is a widely acknowledged sporting phenomenon, especially in
association football. Here, we examine the second leg home advantage, an effect that is …

The idea that the success rate of a team increases when playing home is broadly accepted
and documented for a wide variety of sports. Investigations on the so-called “home …

The existence and justification to the home advantage–the benefit a sports team receives
when playing at home–has been studied across sport. The majority of research on this topic …

One of the great pleasures of sport is to attend an event accompanied by family and friends
and to cheer enthusiastically for a favorite local team. A casual review of the standings of …