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Originally Posted by pistonsloyalist  If you are right about that, I wonder if it has something to do with the importance of home court advantage in pro basketball. My impression is that the home team wins a greater percentage of the time in playoff basketball than in playoff hockey and baseball. |
In playoff basketball, that could very well be because the teams with HCA are better teams and the better teams can assert their dominance (no matter where they are playing).
The home court effect should be analyzed by looking at regular season games only, because it gives you an unbiased sampling across all teams.
If I had to guess, I would think that football probably has the biggest advantage for the home team. I would think baseball has the least.
Football/ basketball/ hockey/ baseball.