thegoodphight.com - 7/3/2008
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For many years, it has been well documented that home teams win baseball games more often than road teams. In fact, from 1977-2008, home teams have won 54.0% of all baseball games—a .080 percentage point advantage. Some teams have larger advantages than others, as documented by Nate Silver of ...
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The Good Phight: Homefield Advantage
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
The Good Phight: Homefield Advantage It appears as though homefield advantage is not a persistent thing—the Phillies have not squandered homefield advantage and the Rays have not capitalized on it for any specific reason and there is no reason to expect that the Phillies will have a weaker homefield advantage next year than the Rays. So what does cause homefield advantage and can teams learn to exploit it—or keep other teams from exploiting their own? For one thing, the correlation in between winning percentage and homefield advantage is strongly negative, -.190, and ...
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Beyond the Box Score —
... with Fangraphs BABIP home/away splits, which in turn had MattS post an interesting study he did regarding home/away splits of a lot of different factors ...
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