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ABSTRACT:
Home field advantage (HFA) is a phenomena that has been extensively studied for entire sports. However, no research has been found documenting the advantage for individual locations. The "points-margin" or "spread" (i.e. home team points minus visiting team points) was calculated for all professional football games between 1988 and 1994. Individual team and team quality (season victories) statistics were analyzed using simple linear regression to determine the advantage. On average the home team outscored the opponent by 2.91 points. Individually, HFA ranged between -.01 (Indianapolis) and 8.58 points (Houston). The most striking finding was nearly perfect positive linear relationship (r=.986) among the season victories" mean points-margins. There is some evidence that "domed" stadiums amplify the effects of HFA, with domed teams averaging a HFA of 3.22 points, while open stadium teams averaged 3.01 points. This study was unable to discern whether team quality or location weights more heavily in determining HFA.
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