Facility familiarity and the home advantage in professional sports

Loughead, Todd M.; Carron, Albert V.; Bray, Steven R; Kim, Arvin J.

doi:10.1080/1612197x.2003.9671718

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“…Although findings have not always been consistent across studies, there is evidence that crowd size (Downward & Jones, 2007) and crowd noise (Nevill, Balmer, & Williams, 2002;Unkelbach & Memmert, 2010) can influence the decision-making of referees in a manner that favours the home team. There is also some evidence that performance deteriorates with greater distance travelled to competitions (Lew, Recht, & Schwartz, 1995;Ramchandani & Wilson, 2010) and when home teams move to a new stadium (Loughead, Carron, Bray, & Kim, 2003;Pollard, 2002). Taken together, research findings have shown support for three of the four factors (crowd, travel, and familiarity) contributing to the home advantage in team sport (see Carron, Loughead, & Bray, 2005).…”

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The home advantage over the first 20 seasons of the English Premier League: Effects of shirt colour, team ability and time trends

Allen

Jones

2012

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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This study explored the relationship between teams' home shirt colour and the magnitude of the home advantage in English professional football. Secondary aims were to explore the consistency of the home advantage over time and the relationship between the home advantage and team ability. Archival data from 7720 matches contested over the first 20 seasons of the English Premier League were analysed. The data show that teams wearing red are more successful than teams wearing other colours, and that teams are more successful in home games than in away games (home advantage index = .608). The home advantage has also remained consistent over time (1992/93 to 2011/12) and is greater in low-ability teams (teams with lower league positions) than in high-ability teams. After controlling for team ability, it was found that teams opting for red shirts in their home games did not show a greater home advantage than teams opting for other colour shirts. Two possibilities for this finding are offered: 1) shirt colour is not a contributing factor to team success, or 2) changes in psychological functioning associated with viewing or wearing red stay with team members after shirt colour has been changed. It is recommended that researchers continue to explore the effect of shirt colour on athlete and team behaviour and further explore how team ability can affect the magnitude of the home-field advantage.

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The home advantage over the first 20 seasons of the English Premier League: Effects of shirt colour, team ability and time trends

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Jones

2012

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“…However, research has found support for the impact of both travel (e.g. Jehue, Strret, & Huizenga, 1993;Recht, Lew, & Schwartz, 1995) and facility familiarity (Loughead, Carron, Bray, & Kim, 2003;Pollard, 2002). Rules have clearly received the least attention of any game location factor.…”

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Batting last as a home advantage factor in men's NCAA tournament baseball

Bray

Obara

Kwan

2005

Journal of Sports Sciences

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In baseball and softball, there is a rule that allows the home team to have the last at-bat and thus the final opportunity to win the game. However, in tournament play, this rule is often set aside and, instead, batting order is decided by other means (e.g. tournament rules, the flip of a coin). The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the batting last rule on game outcome in NCAA men's regional tournament baseball. It was hypothesized that host (i.e. home) teams would win a greater percentage of the games in which they batted last compared with when they batted first. This hypothesis was not supported. Closer examination of the last inning of play showed home teams were no more likely to have won the game during their last bat than visitors playing other visitors. The results suggest that the batting last rule contributes minimally, if at all, to home advantage in NCAA tournament baseball.

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“…In the present study, Spain's club competition (in the regular league) was analysed, and in the study by Marcelino et al (2009) the World League's national team competition was analysed. Studies that look closer at these differences, keeping in mind the type and duration of the displacements, the possible previous training, the characteristics of the facility, fan attendance and their actions, etc., are needed (Loughead et al, 2003;Wallace et al, 2005).…”

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Way of scoring by Spanish First Division volleyball teams in relation to winning/losing, home/away, final classification, and type of confrontation

Palao¹,

Manzanares²,

Valadés³

2015

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season). The variables studied were: the way points were obtained in each play, being the home or away team, the level of the teams, the result of the match, and the type of confrontation between the teams with regard to their level. The results demonstrate that for both men's and women's teams, the majority of the points were obtained in attack and by opponent errors. Differences were found with regard to the way points were obtained when winning or losing the match was taken into account as well as when considering the level of the teams. This paper discusses the differences found with regard to whether the team is home or visiting and the type of confrontation.

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Facility familiarity and the home advantage in professional sports

Cited by 45 publications

References 7 publications

The home advantage over the first 20 seasons of the English Premier League: Effects of shirt colour, team ability and time trends

The home advantage over the first 20 seasons of the English Premier League: Effects of shirt colour, team ability and time trends

Batting last as a home advantage factor in men's NCAA tournament baseball

Way of scoring by Spanish First Division volleyball teams in relation to winning/losing, home/away, final classification, and type of confrontation

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