Inconsistencies of the Evaluation of Home Advantage in Sports Competitions Under the Three Points Per Victory System

• Authors: Miguel Saavedra García , Óscar Gutiérrez Aguilar , Juan J. Fernández Romero
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A recent letter sent to the Journal of Human Kinetics’ editor (Gómez & Pollard, 2014) warned about a supposed methodology error in the calculation of home advantage in football leagues used in Saavedra et al. (2013) and took the liberty of modifying the research’s data. The aim of this letter is to demonstrate that the evaluation system of the home advantage proposed by Pollard (1986) contains serious inconsistencies when applied to competitions which give three points for a win and one point for a draw, as it is the case of the UEFA football leagues in the 21th century

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Journal of Human Kinetics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-6

Dates

published

1 - 10 - 2014

online

10 - 10 - 2014

Contributors

author

Miguel Saavedra García

• University of A Coruña (Spain)

author

Óscar Gutiérrez Aguilar

• University Miguel Hernández (Spain)

author

Juan J. Fernández Romero

• University of A Coruña (Spain)

References

• Pollard R. Home advantage in soccer: A retrospective analysis. J Sport Sci, 1986; 4(3): 237-248 doi: 10.1080/02640418608732122[Crossref]
• Saavedra M, Gutiérrez O, Sa P, Torres G, Fernández JJ. Calculating Home Advantage in the First Decade of the 21th Century UEFA Soccer Leagues. J Hum Kinet, 2013; 38: 141-150 doi: 10.2478/hukin-2013-0054[Crossref][WoS]
• Sanchez PA, Garcia-Calvo T, Leo FM, Pollard R, Gomez MA. An analysis of home advantage in the top two spanish professional football leagues. Percept Motor Skill, 2009; 108(3): 789-797 doi: 10.2466/pms.108.3.789-797[Crossref][WoS]

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/hukin-2014-0055