Home-Field Effect and Team Performance
By Fiona Carmichael, Dennis Thomas. 2005
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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.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Babatunde Buraimo
- Rob Simmons
- Adam Cox
- David Forrest
- Richard Pollard
- Stefan Szymanski
- Dominik Schreyer
- Payam Ansari
In Gender Studies
- Babatunde Buraimo
- Rob Simmons
- Adam Cox
- David Forrest
- Richard Pollard
- Stefan Szymanski
- Dominik Schreyer
- Payam Ansari
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- Babatunde Buraimo
- Rob Simmons
- Adam Cox
- David Forrest
- Richard Pollard
- Stefan Szymanski
- Dominik Schreyer
- Payam Ansari
Citations in the corpus
- The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer (2010, background): “advantage makes them underdogs (see Carmichael and Thomas (2005) for a study of home advantage in English football; Pollard and Pollard (2005) and Stefani (2007) survey the extent of home advantage in team sports across North America and England).”
- Home Advantage in Football: A Current Review of an Unsolved Puzzle (2008, background): “Clear differences between home and away teams in terms of match performance indicators have been shown, with implications on tactical strategies [18,40,41].”