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Home Field Advantage
Posted on 7/17/08 at 9:08 am
Posted on 7/17/08 at 9:08 am
I've always thought home field advantage is not as important as most people think, so I got curious and put together some stats that show how the SEC teams play at home vs. how they play on the road. I thought it might show which team actually plays the best at home and therefor has the biggest "advantage" at home. But now I'm not sure what to think from this:
SEC game home and away records from 2000 to 2007:
Team Home Away Difference
Miss St. 11-21, 4-28 -7
Ole Miss 15-17, 9-23 -6
LSU 26-6, 21-11 -5
Florida 22-6, 18-10 -4
Alabama 17-15, 13-19 -4
Auburn 25-7, 22-10 -3
Arkansas 17-15, 15-17 -2
Kentucky 8-24, 7-25 -1
Carolina 15-17, 15-17 0
Vanderbilt 4-28, 5-27 +1
Georgia 21-7, 22-6 +1
Tennessee 21-11, 23-9 +2
Total 202-174, 174-202
I find it interesting that over the past 8 years, Mississippi State and Ole Miss have the biggest difference in home and road records. I guess this tells me that crappy teams just can't play on the road? But what about UK and Vandy? They're just about even. And what about Georgia and Tennessee? Winning more games on the road than at home?
But I think the most interesting thing is that home winning percentage for the conference as a whole is only .537. That's even lower than I expected.
Thoughts?
SEC game home and away records from 2000 to 2007:
Team Home Away Difference
Miss St. 11-21, 4-28 -7
Ole Miss 15-17, 9-23 -6
LSU 26-6, 21-11 -5
Florida 22-6, 18-10 -4
Alabama 17-15, 13-19 -4
Auburn 25-7, 22-10 -3
Arkansas 17-15, 15-17 -2
Kentucky 8-24, 7-25 -1
Carolina 15-17, 15-17 0
Vanderbilt 4-28, 5-27 +1
Georgia 21-7, 22-6 +1
Tennessee 21-11, 23-9 +2
Total 202-174, 174-202
I find it interesting that over the past 8 years, Mississippi State and Ole Miss have the biggest difference in home and road records. I guess this tells me that crappy teams just can't play on the road? But what about UK and Vandy? They're just about even. And what about Georgia and Tennessee? Winning more games on the road than at home?
But I think the most interesting thing is that home winning percentage for the conference as a whole is only .537. That's even lower than I expected.
Thoughts?
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Posted on 7/17/08 at 9:49 am to LSUJuice
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But I think the most interesting thing is that home winning percentage for the conference as a whole is only .537. That's even lower than I expected.
Kentucky and Vandy skew this stat. combined 12-52
at home
Posted on 7/17/08 at 9:59 am to ksayetiger
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Carolina 15-17, 15-17 0
Ill never understand that.. even more confusing is that during those 34 losses generally we have still "played better" on the road than at home
Posted on 7/17/08 at 10:24 am to ksayetiger
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Kentucky and Vandy skew this stat. combined 12-52 at home
Yes, but that is their same combined record on the road, thus canceling it out.
Posted on 7/17/08 at 11:04 am to LSUJuice
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thus canceling it out.
Well, in a way. By that rational that is .500 home field overall, which brings the average down.
Posted on 7/17/08 at 12:38 pm to ksayetiger
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Kentucky and Vandy skew this stat. combined 12-52 at home
To my boy's defense, we weren't winning a whole hell of a lot of anything whether it be the road or home seeing as we were on probation for three years of that span with some steep scholarship reductions.
It is interesting to see though. But I do think you have to attribute the barely better than .500 overrall stat to the uniform toughness of the conference.
Posted on 7/17/08 at 1:00 pm to LilLadyKat99
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Yes, but that is their same combined record on the road, thus canceling it out.
current record at home: 202-174 (.537)
Kentucky/Vanderbilt: 12-52
current record at home (Kentucky/Vanderbilt removed): 190-312 (.609)
The overall home-away record is the same, but removing Kentucky and Vanderbilt's home records only affects the other teams' away records. So the home win % improves...it just means that the away win % drops.
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