The home-court advantage in NCAA Division-I men’s basketball

IF 0.5 Q4 SPORT SCIENCES

Journal of Human Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.14198/jhse.2023.182.13

D. Cabarkapa, M. Deane, Anthony B. Ciccone, Grant T. Jones, Damjana V. Cabarkapa, A. Fry

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Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to examine the differences in game-related statistics between home and away games at the NCAA Division- I level of men’s basketball competition. The data scraping technique was used to obtain publicly available box scores during the 2018-19 competitive season. Throughout this period, 2181 home and 2205 away box scores were randomly selected across 353 teams, regardless of the winning or losing game outcome. The findings of the present study revealed that the game-related statistics influenced by the game location, listed in descending order of magnitude, were: assists (AS), personal fouls (PF), field-goal percentage (FG%), free-throw attempts (FTA), blocks (BL), defensive rebounds (DRB), turnovers (TO), steals (ST), and three-point shooting percentage (3P%). During home games, the teams tended to display better decision-making processes (i.e., more AS and ST, and less TO), defensive performance (i.e., more DRB and BL), shooting efficiency (i.e., greater FT% and 3P%), and minimize tactical errors (i.e., less PF and more FTA). Overall, these findings suggest that playing on a home-court provides a significant advantage in securing the desired game outcome and provides insight into what game-related statistics contribute most to this effect.

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NCAA一级联赛男子篮球的主场优势

本研究的目的是检验NCAA一级男子篮球比赛中主客场比赛相关数据的差异。数据抓取技术用于获取2018-19赛季公开可用的盒子分数。在此期间，从353支球队中随机抽取了2181个主场和2205个客场比分，无论比赛结果是赢是输。本研究结果显示，受比赛地点影响的比赛相关统计数据由大到小依次为:助攻(AS)、个人犯规(PF)、投篮命中率(FG%)、罚球次数(FTA)、盖帽(BL)、防守篮板(DRB)、失误(TO)、抢断(ST)和三分球命中率(3P%)。在主场比赛中，球队往往表现出更好的决策过程(即更多的AS和ST，更少的to)，防守表现(即更多的DRB和BL)，投篮效率(即更高的罚球率和三分率)，并尽量减少战术失误(即更少的PF和更多的FTA)。总的来说，这些发现表明，在主场比赛在确保预期的比赛结果方面提供了显著的优势，并提供了与比赛相关的统计数据对这种效果的贡献最大的见解。

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Journal of Human Sport and Exercise SPORT SCIENCES-

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