Comparison of Home Advantage in European Football Leagues

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23520%2F20%3A43959603" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23520/20:43959603 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9091/8/3/87/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9091/8/3/87/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/risks8030087" target="_blank" >10.3390/risks8030087</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparison of Home Advantage in European Football Leagues

Original language description

Home advantage in sports is important for coaches, players, fans, and commentators and has a key role in sports prediction models. This paper builds on results of recent research that—instead of points gained—used goals scored and goals conceded to describe home advantage. This offers more detailed look at this phenomenon. Presented description understands a home advantage in leagues as a random variable that can be described by a trinomial distribution. The paper uses this description to offer new ways of home advantage comparison—based on the Jeffrey divergence and the test for homogeneity—in different leagues. Next, a heuristic procedure—based on distances between probability descriptions of home advantage in leagues—is developed for identification of leagues with similar home advantage. Publicly available data are used for demonstration of presented procedures in 19 European football leagues between the 2007/2008 and 2016/2017 seasons, and for individual teams of one league in one season. Overall, the highest home advantage rate was identified in the highest Greek football league, and the lowest was identified in the fourth level English football league.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10103 - Statistics and probability

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1506" target="_blank" >LO1506: Sustainability support of the centre NTIS - New Technologies for the Information Society</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Risks

ISSN

2227-9091

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000578178500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85093877119