Impact of Spectators, League and Team Ability on Home Advantage in Professional European Basketball

Alonso Pérez-Chao, Enrique; Portes, Rubén; Ribas, Carlos; Lorenzo, Alberto; Leicht, Anthony S.; Gómez, Miguel Ángel

doi:10.1177/00315125231215710

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“…These results were disparate from former results obtained by investigators of men's professional basketball, where the presence of fans was associated with higher HA and HW relative to the absence of fans, dependent on game locations (Alonso Pérez-Chao et al, 2024a). The fact that average attendance is lower in women's than in men's basketball may be related to these outcomes.…”

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“…This phenomenon is well-known and has been repeatedly verified in the research literature and is known as the home-court advantage (HA) (Alonso et al, 2022;Pollard & Ruano, 2015). This effect implies better match outcomes when a team plays home versus away games (Alonso Pérez-Chao et al, 2024a). HA is typically determined by totaling the number of home games won rand dividing by the number of all games won (both at home and away) across a season (Pollard & Gómez Ruano, 2007).…”

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“…Previous researchers attempted to explain these phenomena (HA and HW) as consequences of multiple interacting factors (Alonso Pérez-Chao et al, 2024a;Dellagrana et al, 2023;Gómez & Pollard, 2011). To date, existing basketball data related to HA have analyzed the impact on HA and HW, nearly always for men's play, by focusing on different contextual variables, including team ability (Alonso et al, 2022;Pollard & Gómez Ruano, 2007), region of the league (Gómez & Pollard, 2011), level of crowd support and presence of fans (Alonso et al, 2022;Dellagrana et al, 2023) and game location (García et al, 2009).…”

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Examining the Role of Fan Support on Home Advantage and Home Win Percentage in Professional Women’s Basketball

Alonso-Pérez-Chao,

Martín-Castellanos,

Nieto-Acevedo

et al. 2024

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Our main aim in this study was to analyze any differences in Win Percentages at Home (HW) that might represent a Home-Court Advantage (HA) in women’s professional basketball. A secondary objective was to analyze how team ability might modify the HA effect by comparing any interaction effect between HW and team ability in games played with and without fans. We collected data from first Spanish female basketball divisions, using a linear mixed model (LMM) for repeated measures to identify differences between time periods (games with fans vs. games without fans) for HA and HW. When comparing games with and without fans, we found no significant HA and HW differences ( p = .283 and p = .872, respectively). In fact, interestingly, we observed higher win values when fans were absent. Additionally, during the COVID-19 shut down stage, HA increased; but it returned to pre-pandemic levels afterward, with no significant differences between these periods ( p = .482). Similarly, while HW seemed to increase during the COVID-19 shut down period and continued improving in the post-pandemic phase, there were actually no statistically significant differences ( p = .772). Higher HA and HW were evident without fans during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period when fans were present in women’s professional basketball. During the post-pandemic period, HA decreased upon fans’ return, while HW continued increasing. We discuss possible bases for these unexpected findings.

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