Home Team Advantage in the English Premier League

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23520%2F20%3A43959606" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23520/20:43959606 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://mz.mf.uni-lj.si/article/view/205" target="_blank" >https://mz.mf.uni-lj.si/article/view/205</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51936/KUIE7054" target="_blank" >10.51936/KUIE7054</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Home Team Advantage in the English Premier League

Original language description

The home team advantage in association football is a well known phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to offer a different view on the home team advantage. Usually, in association football, every two teams – team A and team B – play each other twice in a season. Once as a home team and once as a visiting, or away team. This gives us two results between teams A and B which are combined together to evaluate whether team A, against its opponent B, recorded a result at its home ground – in the comparison to the away ground – that is better, even, or worse. This leads to a random variable with three possible outcomes, i.e. with trinomial distribution. The combination and comparison of home and away results of the same two teams, is the key to eliminate problems with different squad strengths of teams in a league. The bayesian approach is used to determine point and interval estimates of unknown parameters of the source trinomial distribution, i.e. the probability that the result at home will be better, even, or worse. Moreover, it is possible to test a hypothesis that the home team advantage for a selected team is statistically significant.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

—

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

Metodoloski Zvezki

ISSN

1854-0023

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SI - SLOVENIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

55-76

UT code for WoS article

—

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85123527596