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Home ground advantage of individual clubs in English soccer

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posted on 2024-07-13, 05:54 authored by Stephen ClarkeStephen Clarke, John M. Norman
Least squares is used to fit a model to the individual match results in English football and produce a Home Ground Advantage (HA) effect for each team in addition to a team rating. We show for a balanced competition this is equivalent to a simple calculator method using only data from the final ladder. The existence of a spurious HA is discussed. HA's for all teams in the English Football league from 1981-82 to 1990-91 are calculated, and some reasons for their differences investigated. A paired HA is defined and shown to be linearly related to the distance between club grounds.

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0039-0526

Journal title

Royal Statistical Society Journal series D: The Statistician

Volume

44

Issue

4

Pagination

12 pp

Publisher

Wiley

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Copyright © 1995 Royal Statistical Society.

Language

eng

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