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Thursday, October 02, 2008
Baseball Thesis
Long-time reader Mike has his thesis posted on my site:
The home advantage has been consistently demonstrated across a number of sports, but conclusive evidence of the origin of the home advantage has yet to be found. One factor thought to contribute to the home advantage is familiarity; the home team is more familiar with their stadium and playing field and thus should have an advantage in competition. To isolate this variable, we compared the records of teams in their last year at a stadium, where familiarity should be high, with their records their first year in a new stadium, where familiarity should be low. Professional baseball, hockey, football, and basketball data from the four major U.S. leagues were examined. Results showed no differences in home winning percentage between a team’s high-familiarity season and its following low-familiarity season, suggesting that familiarity does not play a major role in the home advantage.
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