The Advantage of Playing Home in NBA: Microscopic, Team-Specific and Evolving Features.

ABSTRACT: The idea that the success rate of a team increases when playing home is broadly accepted and documented for a wide variety of sports. Investigations on the so-called "home advantage phenomenon" date back to the 70's and ever since has attracted the attention of scholars and sport enthusiasts. These studies have been mainly focused on identifying the phenomenon and trying to correlate it with external factors such as crowd noise and referee bias. Much less is known about the effects of home advantage in the "microscopic" dynamics of the game (within the game) or possible team-specific and evolving features of this phenomenon. Here we present a detailed study of these previous features in the National Basketball Association (NBA). By analyzing play-by-play events of more than sixteen thousan

SUBMITTER: Ribeiro HV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4807825 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature