Officials and Home Advantage

J Reade

No em-dp2018-01, Economics Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Reading

Abstract: Home advantage is the observed regularity that teams in sporting events win more often than their relative quality would suggest when playing at home. We review the literature and illustrate a number of the potential explanations using a novel and huge dataset of cricket matches. Explanations for the home advantage can be summarised into four headings: crowd, familiarity, travel and rules. Evidence increasingly points towards the role that officials play, yet other explanations cannot necessarily be ruled out.

Keywords: home advantage; contests; sport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C20 L83 Z2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2018-03-10
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