Home-Field Effect and Team Performance

Fiona Carmichael and Dennis Thomas
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Fiona Carmichael: University of Salford
Dennis Thomas: University of Wales, Aberystwyth, det@aber.ac.uk

Journal of Sports Economics, 2005, vol. 6, issue 3, 264-281

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: production functions; association football; team sports; home-field effect; within-match performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/1527002504266154

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