There's No Place Like Home: Estimating Intra-Conference Home Field Advantage in College Football Using a Bayesian Piecewise Linear Model

Gajewski Byron J
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Gajewski Byron J: University of Kansas Medical Center

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2006, vol. 2, issue 1, 26

Abstract: This article presents a method to measure the impact of the home field advantage for intra-conference college football. The method models longitudinal data across several years while utilizing a unique home field parameter for each individual team. Additionally, two novel yet intuitive measures of home field advantage are proposed. As a case study of the method and the definitions of home field advantage, teams with the best and worst home field advantages within their respective conferences are determined.

Keywords: WinBUGS; Gibbs sampler; Linear Model; chi-square fit; MCMC; DIC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.2202/1559-0410.1009

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