Home Field Advantage In Basketball

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Home field advantage in sports has always been an ongoing topic of discussion. Teams who play at their home turf, play a lot better. Common knowledge, right? But does playing at home in the playoffs, really effect on whether you win the game and is the whole concept of home field advantage legitimate?
In the playoffs, everything counts. Every out, play, hit, walk, run, homer, everything, even the atmosphere. When teams play at home, they play in front of their own home crowd, the ones that they have been playing for all season long. The atmosphere is loud and every great play by the home team is cheered on while the road team is bombarded with echoing boos, not the greatest place to play at when you are the road team. So, does this mean that road team is at a true disadvantage and win the series? That’s what I wanted to investigate.
I took the last six years of postseason play from the American League and compared each playoff round home wins versus losses. I picked the American League just out of random and to use this to study …show more content…

There is nothing that baseball fans look forward to like the World Series. So how do home teams fare? Not as good as one may think. Home teams only won 52.8% approximately 53% of their games and losing 47.2% of it. Nineteen games were won at home compared to seventeen losses, not a huge difference. Despite this, like the ALCS, four out of the six times the team who held home field advantage throughout the series ended up winning the World Series. Something interesting that should be noted, in the years 2012 and 2013 wins and losses were the same, again 50% of the victory were for the home teams at home vice versa with the losses. In 2016, we saw that home field advantage turned out to be a disadvantage. Five of the wins came from the road team and only two games were won at home for the teams playing at

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