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
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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
Prior to the current stadium, the Cowboys’ home was one of the most recognizable professional sports stadiums of its time. According to Stadiums of Pro Football, “Texas Stadium, seated nearly 66,000 fans and was known for its partial roof where weather conditions could play a factor in each game,” (Page 1). Stated in the official Irving, Texas fact sheet pertaining to Texas Stadium “the stadium was constructed at a cost of 35 million and lasted from its opening date in 1971 until it was closed in December of 2008,” (Page 2). The new stadium built to replace Texas Stadium in 2009 named Cowboys Stadium, is luxurious to say the least, not to mention it is practically brand new. Altough 4 years later reported by Star Telegram, “Cowboys Stadium would now be known as AT&T Stadium under a multimillion-dollar naming-rights deal between the iconic football team and the Dallas-based ...
The opening pitch of the 1999 marks the start of the Toronto Blue Jays twenty third seasons in the American League. In 1998, the Jays brought in their first winning season since 1993. The Jays plays in the worlds most advanced retractable-roof stadium. It is luxuriously called the Sky Dome. With a winning record like this and a state of the art stadium, the Jays feel their tickets are a great value because of the satisfaction fans can expect to receive from the ball game.
Baseball statistics are meant to be a representation of a player’s talent. Since baseball’s inception around the mid-19th century, statistics have been used to interpret the talent level of any given player, however, the statistics that have been traditionally used to define talent are often times misleading. At a fundamental level, baseball, like any game, is about winning. To win games, teams have to score runs; to score runs, players have to get on base any way they can. All the while, the pitcher and the defense are supposed to prevent runs from scoring. As simplistic as this view sounds, the statistics being used to evaluate individual players were extremely flawed. In an attempt to develop more specific, objective forms of statistical analysis, the idea of Sabermetrics was born. Bill James, a man who never played or coached professional baseball, is often credited as a pioneer in the field and for coining the name as homage to the Society of American Baseball Research, or SABR. Eventually, the use of Sabermetrics became widespread in the Major Leagues, the first team being the Oakland Athletics, as depicted in Moneyball. Bill James and other baseball statisticians have developed various methods of evaluating a player performance that allow for a more objective view of the game, broadly defined as Sabermetrics.
Winfree * , Jason A., McCluskey, J. J., Mittelhammer, R. C., & Fort, R. (2004). Location and attendance in major league baseball. Applied Economics, 36(19), 2117-2124. doi:10.1080/0003684042000287664
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We tried to find out how certain basketball statistics affect winning percentage for a NCAA Division I basketball team. We used the entire NCAA division I 1999-2000 season statistics. We considered the following statistics: Field Goals, Free Throws, Personal Fouls, Turnovers, 3 Pointers, Blocks, & Steals.
The Dodgers and the Mets will be playing each other come the playoffs and the games that will be played will be especially interesting because of the shared similarities between these two sides. Both have a mix of good pitching, up and down offense, and have very similar records. These records will play a huge part in determining who gets home field advantage and I think that will play a huge role in the team that wins the best of
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The National Football League was formed decades ago by the merger of two national leagues. The Super Bowl is the traditional season-end activity that crowns the national champion. Each team represented starts with one of the original leagues.The number of teams active in the NFL does not remain the same for longr.o. the game of professional football is big business and can be highly profitable. When the NFL announces that it has approved new expansion teams, there is intense competition among team less cities to attract one of the franchises. The game is profitable for team owners and for players, but it also is profitable for the cities in which teams are centered. It contributes to the local economy and enhances the stature of the city in where a team is located.
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...ofessional sport and every other collegiate sport uses a playoff system to determine it’s champion, the importance of the regular season is reduced. Since the inception of the Bowl Championship Series system, only once has a team lost more than one game and reached the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game. With such little margin for error, each game is of great magnitude and brings an increased level of excitement. If college football used a playoff system to determine it’s champion, regular season games would become less important; therefore making them less exciting.
The game of basketball is a highly recognized and widely known sport. Basketball was first heard of in the winter of 1891 when a man by the name of James Naismith was told to instruct a physical education class at the Young Men’s Christian Association in Springfield, Massachusetts. Naismith was instructed to put together a game for young men to enjoy while they were at the YMCA. While trying to come up with a brilliant and fun game for these young men, Naismith reminisced back on his childhood in Canada. He remembered a game his friends and him had played all the time: “Duck on a Rock”, which involved trying to knock a large rock off a boulder by throwing smaller rocks at it. Naismith also remembered watching a game of rugby going on in the gymnasium. The game of Rugby involved tossing a ball into a box. After a very short time of trying to make up a game for these young men, Naismith came up with a brilliant idea. Little did he know the game that he came up with just so happened to be one of he most renowned sports in American history. Naismith’s idea pertained to nailing up raised boxes so that players could attempt to throw a ball in the basket. When there were no boxes too be found, he used peach baskets. Supposedly, Naismith came up with all the rules for this game in no more than “about an hour”, according to Alexander Wolff. Shortly after Naismith had invented the game of basketball, graduates of the YMCA traveled internationally which is the main reason as to why this sport is so widely known. The impact basketball has made on the lives of many Americans is incredible in the sense that it has given people the ability to ...