A home advantage? Examining 100 years of team success in National Hockey League playoff overtime games

McEwan, Desmond

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.02.010

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“…For example, multiple studies (e.g., Baumeister & Steinhilber, 1984;Jones, 2014;Schlenker et al, 1995;Wright et al, 1995) have compared home and away team win percentages in early games of a best-of-seven series versus later or final games. As others have pointed out (e.g., McEwan, 2019;Schlenker et al, 1995;Tauer et al, 2009), the precise circumstances of the (potentially) decisive games of a series need to be considered. For example, in a best-of-seven series, the "final game" of a series implies that the home team, away team, or both teams have an opportunity to clinch a series.…”

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Does a Home Disadvantage Ever Exist?

McEwan¹,

Hoffmann²

2021

Home Advantage in Sport

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Does a Home Disadvantage Ever Exist?

McEwan¹,

Hoffmann²

2021

Home Advantage in Sport

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“…Some research has also shown the home advantage to be partly attributable to biased officiating (Moskowitz & Wertheim, 2012). Despite a wealth of supporting evidence for a home advantage in sport (Jamieson, 2010), researchers who have focused on athletes’ psychological and behavioral states have reported instances of a home disadvantage in certain phases of or in specific situations within National Hockey League (NHL) games (Hoffmann et al., 2017; McEwan, 2019; McEwan et al., 2012). These researchers drew upon previous studies from sport (Baumeister & Steinhilber, 1984) and non-sport (Butler & Baumeister, 1998) contexts demonstrating that individuals seemed to “choke” in the presence of supportive (home) audiences in certain critical/high-pressure situations.…”

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“…(2012) examined NHL shootout data from the 2006–07 through 2010–11 seasons and found that home teams benefitted in shootout situations where scoring would prevent a loss, but had a home disadvantage in shootout opportunities where scoring would trigger a win. McEwan (2019) examined 100 years of NHL overtime playoff data and found that visiting teams won significantly more overtime games than home teams in games where the visiting team had an imminent opportunity to win a series; there was no such advantage for home teams who had imminent opportunities to win a series.…”

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Home Team (Dis)Advantage Patterns in the National Hockey League: Changes Through Increased Emphasis on Individual Performance With the 3-on-3 Overtime Rule

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Past research examining National Hockey League (professional ice hockey; NHL) data from the 4-on-4 overtime era (seasons between 2005-06 and 2013-14) revealed an inconsistent home team (dis)advantage pattern such that home teams that were superior to their visiting counterparts had slightly greater odds of winning during regulation play compared to overtime (demonstrating home crowd advantages for team performance during regulation); in contrast, home teams experienced lower odds of winning in the shootout period than in overtime regardless of team quality (thereby demonstrating risks for individual choking from home crowd pressures). In this study, we explored the NHL home (dis)advantage pattern during four more recent seasons (2015-16 through 2018-19) in which the league instituted 3-on-3 play during overtime (perhaps increasing individual pressure for athletes competing in the 3-on-3 overtime period). We used archival data from the regular season (N=5,002 games) to compare home teams’ odds of winning in regulation (with 5-on-5 skaters per team) to overtime (with 3-on-3) and in the shootout, adjusting for the quality of home and visiting teams. We conducted fixed-effects and multi-level logistic regression modeling. Evenly matched home teams were 1.66 times more likely to win than inferior home teams when games concluded in regulation versus overtime. Superior home teams were 4.24 times more likely to win than inferior home teams when games concluded in regulation rather than overtime. Thus, it is apparently more difficult for superior and evenly matched home teams to win in overtime than during regulation, suggesting that such home teams may be susceptible to choking in overtime. In contrast to the earlier 4-on-4 overtime era, home teams did not have lower odds of winning in the shootout compared to overtime. These results may have implications for NHL coaches’ and players’ tactical decision-making.

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Social Influence of Sport Spectators

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Staufenbiel²,

Meurs

et al. 2023

Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Small changes and additions in comparison to the 2 nd version from June 30, 2022 3 rd version (July 7 th , 2022), preprint: 10.31234/osf.io/uet7f with small changes and additions in comparison to the 2 nd version from June 30 th , 2022 2 You have probably already experienced giving a presentation in front of a group of people. Were you influenced by the presence of your audience? Was your performance better, worse, or unaffected compared to the rehearsal session when you practiced alone? Is your performance influenced differently when the audience listens attentively as opposed to when they are noisily not paying attention? How does this presence of others impact performances and behaviors in the context of sports? In sports, social influence has already been investigated extensively (cf. Epting et al., 2011;Strauss, 2002b). A particular interest within social influence research is the home advantage in team sports (Allen & Jones, 2014;Carron et al., 2005). Research in this field is concerned with understanding whether the performance of the home team is better due to more of their fans being in the stadium.

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A home advantage? Examining 100 years of team success in National Hockey League playoff overtime games

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Does a Home Disadvantage Ever Exist?

Does a Home Disadvantage Ever Exist?

Home Team (Dis)Advantage Patterns in the National Hockey League: Changes Through Increased Emphasis on Individual Performance With the 3-on-3 Overtime Rule

Social Influence of Sport Spectators

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