tOfficial 'win, lose, or draw' I'm done with Flip Thread.

[TaShawn]

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.

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playoff hockey is so far different from regular season hockey... players really lay there bodies on the line when there playing for the cup, no way they can play at that level all year long. also seems that teams really grow by leaps and bounds over the course of the season so alot of times the 5-8 teams are actually playing better hockey at the time the playoffs start then the 1-4 teams. I think that The home ice is important as it still can feed the team but its not always as clear cut to who the better team is.

Basketball the home court advantage team is normally clearly the better team, but the crowd can really pump up a team... from the pistons of the late 80's to the atlanta/phili teams this year.

Football... just to hit and miss, with a one and go home...