Home-Field Effect and Team Performance
- 18 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Sports Economics
- Vol. 6 (3), 264-281
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1527002504266154
Abstract
This article discusses the home-field effect in professional team sports and provides further evidence of home advantage in association football as played in the English Premier League. Utilizing play data it employs match-based production function to investigate the home-field effect on within-match performance by home and away teams.Keywords
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