Attitude is everything. It is amazing that this will even effects
proffesional athelthes, people whose livelehood and fame and forutne
depend upon their perfomrace. I am looking for statitcs that
demonstrate this concpet. One idea would be the home court advanctage,
if you could find the difference in amount of wins based on whether
the team is playing on their home court. the sound of the crowd in
support-- as opposed to booing. What would also be helpful if first
person andectodes, if a top player, were to describe how difficult it
is for him to play when there are 100,000 local fans booing him, even
though he knows there are millions of his fans, watching via
sattelite...
I don't need any extentensive research, just some statistics that show
the difference in home court advantage. Again, the point being that
because an athlete is cheered on it affects his performance...
I need some infromation on this subject, yet i haven't recieved any
thing on this. Please keep me in formed.
Thanks,
Barry
Hi! Thanks for the question.
Sorry for the delay, I was only able to see this today.
Our first link provides some good statistics on home-field advantages
in baseball. The study was for the years 1901 to 2002. The stats here
are fairly detailed and can be an answer to your question in itself.
?Historical Trends in Home-Field Advantage? by Cyril Morong
http://www.geocities.com/cyrilmorong@sbcglobal.net/HomeRoad.htm
In this article from Australia, we can reference more statistics and
also interviews about the benefits of playing on ones home floor. I
will only reference the statistics here but please read the link for
additional information.
?For example, in ice hockey and basketball, 64 per cent of games were
won on home ground and for American football, home advantage accounted
for 60 per cent of wins. There was a flurry of research after this.
Soccer emerged as having one of the biggest home advantages of any
sport, with some studies estimating 69 per cent of games are won at
home.?
?Many Australian rules games are played in greater Melbourne, without
much travel and with a balanced mix of team supporters. Yet home teams
still win 16.7 per cent more games??
??Referees definitely get influenced by a crowd. We've done some
statistics that show that for the top 10 Rugby sides around the world,
there is a 15 per cent differential in favour of home teams in terms
of penalties awarded.?"
?Fighting The Home Advantage?
http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/fighting/default.htm
Hoopsworld made a small study on home-court advantage in the NBA for
the 2002-2003 season. Here are some findings.
?Did you know home-court advantage got much stronger last season? In
2001-02, the average home-court advantage was 18.3%. Last year, it was
25.7%. A lot of this is due to the Eastern Conference, which had an
average home-court advantage of 26.8%.?
?Home-court advantage isn?t very consistent from year to year, to
repeat an earlier theme. The correlation between home-court advantage
in 2001-02 and 2002-03 was just 32.9%, r squared 10.8%. One year is a
small sample size, but that does seem to suggest that a lot of
home-court advantage is random.?
?Potpourri? By Kevin Pelton
http://www.hoopsworld.com/cgi-bin/news/exec/view.cgi?archive=39&num=5259
Checking out the 3 leagues in the US (NBA, NHL and the NFL), we can
see that more teams have winning records at home. The MLB doesn?t show
in its standings the home and road records.
NBA ? 22 out of 30 teams (as of Mar. 21, 2006)
NHL ? 24 out of 30 teams (as of Mar. 21, 2006)
NFL ? 17 out of 24 teams (2005 season)
Search terms used:
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I hope these links would help you in your research. Before rating this
answer, please ask for a clarification if you have a question or if
you would need further information.
Regards,
Easterangel-ga
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