Home advantage and crowd attendance: evidence from rugby during the Covid 19 pandemic

Fioravanti, Federico; Delbianco, Fernando; 'e, Fernando Tohm

doi:10.1515/jqas-2021-0044

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“…In other sports, however, there is less research done, both in general and with regard to the effect of empty stadiums. Delbianco, Fioravanti, and Tohmé (2023) found that home advantage in rugby decreased during the pandemic. Szabó and Pérez (2021) analysed home advantage in American football and found interesting fact that home advantage decreased on empty stadiums, but when up to 25% of spectators were admitted to the stadiums, the situation was not significantly different compared to normal circumstances.…”

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Home Advantage in Ice Hockey Matches without Spectators

Marek,

Vávra

2024

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Measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have provided a unique dataset that can be analysed to test the influence of spectators on match results. Strict measures were introduced in the Czech Republic, where more than half of the 2020--2021 season was played completely without spectators. The matches of the Czech Extraliga from the last seven seasons (a total of 2604 matches were played between the seasons of 2016--2017 and 2022--2023) were used in the analysis of the influence of spectators on results. Previously developed models from association football were used to perform the analysis. The results of the analysis show that in matches without spectators, the influence of home advantage decreased significantly.

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Home Advantage in Ice Hockey Matches without Spectators

Marek,

Vávra

2024

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The relative importance of ability, luck and motivation in team sports: a Bayesian model of performance in the English Rugby Premiership

2022

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Results in contact sports like Rugby are mainly interpreted in terms of the ability and/or luck of teams. But this neglects the important role of the motivation of players, reflected in the effort exerted in the game. Here we present a Bayesian hierarchical model to infer the main features that explain score differences in rugby matches of the English Premiership Rugby 2020/2021 season. The main result is that, indeed, effort (seen as a ratio between the number of tries and the scoring kick attempts) is highly relevant to explain outcomes in those matches.

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Performing best when it matters the most: evidence from professional handball

Bühren

Gabriel

2023

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

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We analyze the impact of psychological pressure on performance with over 5500 handball penalties thrown in either the decisive stage or the rest of the game during matches of the 2019/2020 season in the first three German handball leagues. Contrary to the choking under pressure phenomenon, most of the analyzed players perform best when it matters the most. The positive effect of pressure on performance is highest when the score is even or when the thrower’s team is trailing. We control for gender and psychological traits assessed with a survey. In our sample, female players score with a higher probability than male players. The positive impact of pressure is not significantly higher for female players.

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Home advantage and crowd attendance: evidence from rugby during the Covid 19 pandemic

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Home Advantage in Ice Hockey Matches without Spectators

Home Advantage in Ice Hockey Matches without Spectators

The relative importance of ability, luck and motivation in team sports: a Bayesian model of performance in the English Rugby Premiership

Performing best when it matters the most: evidence from professional handball

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