{"id":464,"date":"2008-06-18T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T22:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=464"},"modified":"2008-06-19T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:43:09","slug":"the-home-field-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/06\/18\/the-home-field-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Home-Field Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question of why sports teams are more likely to win on their home turf &#8230; yes, it has been studied. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2008\/05\/25\/no_place_like_home\/?page=full\">The Boston Globe writes about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prime suspects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visiting team has to travel<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with the field<\/li>\n<li>Support from fans making referees partial<\/li>\n<li>Support from fans making teams play better (this is the most commonly invoked explanation I believe &#8211; &#8220;thanks to our fans for their great support&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though I do recall reading about another theory that home teams tend to have higher testosterone levels implying that they somehow see themselves as &#8220;defending&#8221; their home.<\/p>\n<p>All interesting because the home-field advantage is such a basic fact of sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question of why sports teams are more likely to win on their home turf &#8230; yes, it has been studied. The Boston Globe writes about it. Prime suspects: Visiting team has to travel Familiarity with the field Support from fans making referees partial Support from fans making teams play better (this is the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/06\/18\/the-home-field-advantage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Home-Field Advantage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}