Magic 10 and NBA Bubble Sports Journalists’ Practices During NBA Season 2019–2020

Sturt, Andy; Humayun, Muhammad Fahad

doi:10.1080/17512786.2022.2054851

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“…Further, the NBA imposed extensive health and safety protocols on top of local public health regulations that regulated on-the-court and off-the-court behavior. The protocols, for example, forbid all players “from going to bars, lounges or clubs, from attending live entertainment or sports events, from using gyms, spas or pools, or from participating in social gatherings with more than 15 people” (Aschburner, 2020). While we cannot entirely rule out the possibility that unobserved local variability in the intensity of the pandemic is an omitted variable that explains some of the impact of the presence of fans, the risk of such a bias is considerably reduced relative to these other settings.…”

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A Mere Fan Effect on Home-Court Advantage

Ganz,

Allsop

2023

Journal of Sports Economics

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The existence of a home-court advantage is one of the most durable empirical patterns in all of sports. Yet, the mechanisms explaining its strength and persistence remain a mystery in large part because of well-known challenges with statistical identification. We use attendance restrictions in place during the 2020–2021 National Basketball Association regular season as an instrument in order to identify the effect of fans and crowd size on home-court advantage. We show that home teams win by [Formula: see text] points, on average, when fans are present at games compared with [Formula: see text] points when no fans are present. This equates to winning approximately 2.2 additional home games over the course of a regular season. In fixed effects instrumental variables regression models, we estimate that the marginal effect of an additional one thousand fans on home-court advantage is [Formula: see text] points. We conclude that the mere presence of home fans, on its own, explains a larger share of home-court advantage than previously thought.

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