Long-term trends in home advantage in professional team sports in North America and England (1876-2003)

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 337-350

  Pollard, R ^a,c   Pollard, G ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Galaxy Creations   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; Basketball; Football; Hockey; Home advantage; Soccer

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; BASKETBALL; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; FOOTBALL; HOME; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPORT; TERRITORIALITY; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

BASEBALL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENGLAND; FOOTBALL; HOCKEY; HUMANS; MENTAL FATIGUE; NORTH AMERICA; SOCCER; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPORTS; TRAVEL;

EID: 17844388604     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410400021559     Document Type: Article

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