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Originally posted by womanizer
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During college in one of my statistics class I analyized EVERY NFL game for 5 seasons (from 1996 to 2001) and it was almost exactally 50/50 home team vs. visiting team wins and losses.

If I still had the paper I would post it but sadly my wife made me throw away all of my college papers and notebooks.....I KNEW I would need them someday!!!!
Really? Think about this. I really hope you never actually did this and that this is a lie or I misread what you typed

Originally posted by alex45644

Really? Think about this. I really hope you never actually did this and that this is a lie or I misread what you typedGoogle's first hit says home field is actually just 1 or 2 points in the NFL http://www.twominutewarning.com/hfa.htm

Originally posted by SyedAshrafulla
Originally posted by alex45644


Really? Think about this. I really hope you never actually did this and that this is a lie or I misread what you typedGoogle's first hit says home field is actually just 1 or 2 points in the NFL http://www.twominutewarning.com/hfa.htm

I'm not saying anything about home field advantage. What I am saying is his "study" makes no sense. If you study EVERY GAME IN THE NFL obviously, the W/L ratio will be even. When a team loses, that means another one won. He said it was almost even.

Originally posted by alex45644
I'm not saying anything about home field advantage. What I am saying is his "study" makes no sense. If you study EVERY GAME IN THE NFL obviously, the W/L ratio will be even. When a team loses, that means another one won. He said it was almost even.oh haha yea I just ignored the comment but wanted to make it clear that home field advantage is not that big in the NFL anymore.

Regarding the study that the guy says that he did, I think that you may in fact be misreading him.

To me, it sounds as though he is claiming if you take an account of all of the home games that all of the teams play each season (8, not counting playoffs), on average a team will win 4 of them and lose 4 of them. This, as opposed to teams winning an average of 5 and losing 3 home games.

If he studies every game in the NFL and he is looking at home team advantage, only one team has it in any given game. His assertion is that statistically it is not the case that that particular team is more likely to win than the other. A team that is currently relative crap (Browns) pulling off an upset against a team that is currently relatively strong (Giants) is not that profound, they're still all professional star athletes at the end of the day. That being the case, this obviously isn't the NFL.

My only conundrum is even if it would be kinda cool and reminiscent of being a fan of the game, what does introducing a static advantage/disadvantage in half of the games really provide in terms of improving the game play? Regardless of it being statistically accurate or not, who is this supposed to make the game more fun for? I mean, the net result over the course of the season seems to cancel itself out, and just adds feature that determines game results without participation from the participants. Meh?

Bad idea, the game doesn't need any more parity than it already has.

Originally posted by Deathblade
I think it just adds a completely unneeded, uncontrollable advantage to a team.

Agreed. How in the hell did this make epic?

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Originally posted by bobby s
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^ now that is annoying. This is like the 8th post I've opened to find this clown in. If I was at home instead of at work I'd be even more annoyed.

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-1: silliness: if you can't win with tactics & builds, you want a home field advantage to get the edge?

as others have pointed out, track the Home Team & Win column over several seasons & you will not see a big home advantages.

+1

Originally posted by Skoll Wolfrun
-1: silliness: if you can't win with tactics & builds, you want a home field advantage to get the edge?

as others have pointed out, track the Home Team & Win column over several seasons & you will not see a big home advantages.

This is supposed to be a SIMULATION of real football, isn't it?

If not the NFL, think of some of the great college teams that have huge win streaks at home. Who wants to go into the Big House in Michigan? Memorial stadium in Lincoln housing 80k? Touchdown Jesus looking over the field at Notre Dame? Remember Miami's huge win streak in the 80's and 90's in the Orange Bowl?

Ever seen the LOT jump offsides because he can't hear the snap count?

Like it or not, home field DOES play a part. It's not unfair to give it in this game--we all get 8 home, 8 away games. If you're good, you get rewarded with extra home games in the playoffs.

im going with keith on this being to practically every home husker game our stadium staff actually keep track of how many false starts we draw per game and how many timeouts we make them call prematurely huge difference in any game and team