"Mythbusting: Home Court Advantage"

At Basketball Prospectus, an article by Kevin Pelton tackling the hows and whys of home-court advantage.

4 months ago AK1984 21 comments 0 recs |

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Above all else, it appears that altitude matters more than the frenzy (or lack thereof) of the home crowd.

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by AK1984 on Feb 2, 2012 6:44 PM PST reply actions

Which is why it sucks to be in a division with Denver and Utah.

"Say his NAME, Portland. Gerald Wallace is...awesome." -Dave, 4/9/11

by austinpwnz on Feb 2, 2012 11:49 PM PST up reply actions

True, it sucks having to go there twice a season.

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by AK1984 on Feb 2, 2012 11:54 PM PST up reply actions

It'd be interesting to see if there's a correlation between HCA and various measures of travel time

e.g. total air-miles traveled, average length of road trips, average distance from opponents (weighted for number of road contests played in each arena), average air-miles traveled per road trip, etc.

That might be a factor for Portland, but I dunno.

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by HailOden! on Feb 3, 2012 3:29 PM PST up reply actions

Yeah.

If only we could have had my dream division of a teams in Seattle, Vancouver B.C in addition to Portland & Sacramento.

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by 420Phenom on Feb 3, 2012 8:29 PM PST up reply actions

Simply making a NW division with GSW and Sac in place of Minny and OKC would help

cut down on our travel distance. Or doing away with divisions, and just trying to take proximity into account when drawing up the schedule.

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by HailOden! on Feb 3, 2012 9:34 PM PST up reply actions

How did you come to that conclusion?

If it was in Pelton’s piece, sorry, I missed it…

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by kuhnsmith on Feb 4, 2012 9:22 AM PST up reply actions

This was in response to AK1984's post...

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by kuhnsmith on Feb 4, 2012 9:23 AM PST up reply actions

Sheesh,

I thought you said “attitude” not “altitude”. Now I get it 8>)!

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by kuhnsmith on Feb 4, 2012 9:26 AM PST up reply actions

Those two words do look the same, for sure.

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by AK1984 on Feb 4, 2012 6:22 PM PST up reply actions

Without reading a thing Gerald Wallace proves the effect of home court advantage.

by hoodieNation on Feb 2, 2012 7:51 PM PST reply actions

It'd be interesting to see league-wide player splits at home and on the road.

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by AK1984 on Feb 2, 2012 8:32 PM PST up reply actions

Wallace stands out because he's so good home, but it's more than just CrashWall

Not counting the Kings game, as a team

FG% 3P% FT%
Home .467 .350 .811
Away .413 .279 .759

Pretty dramatic as a team. Source: NBA.com

by BaylessFace on Feb 2, 2012 11:25 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

seems like we have more b2bs on the road as well

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by austinpwnz on Feb 2, 2012 11:47 PM PST up reply actions

Saturday's game is nice. It's home v. Denver, which'll be finishing off a back-to-back-to-back set.

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by AK1984 on Feb 2, 2012 11:55 PM PST up reply actions

this is both true and a significant factor.

by jksnake99 on Feb 3, 2012 10:00 AM PST up reply actions

Its important to note that this post tackles adjusted home court advantage— ie hca in addition to the standard 3-4 point hca that the authors of “Scorecasting” would tell us is due mostly to home cooking from the officials.

by jksnake99 on Feb 3, 2012 10:00 AM PST reply actions

I think official home cooking is a part of it, but Scorecasting also finds that attendance affects officiating right? Which would cut against the conclusion that there is no persistently greater HCA for any arenas not at altitude, and also even the one year data showing Charlotte to have a much better HCA than OKC.

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by atomiccafe on Feb 3, 2012 1:25 PM PST up reply actions