Abstract
This article discusses the home-field effect in professional team sports and provides further evidence of home advantage in association football as played in the English Premier League. Utilizing play data it employs match-based production function to investigate the home-field effect on within-match performance by home and away teams.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 264-281 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Sports Economics |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2005 |
Keywords
- production functions
- association football
- team sports
- home-field effect
- within-match performance