sports – Home Court Advantage – Comparing Apples to Apples
It is not uncommon to hear or read about how much home court advantage a college sports team has, based on the team having won a high percentage of games played at home. In a recent article, “Home Court Advantage – Can You Believe All You Hear?” I addressed the issue of why this kind of analysis is flawed unless you compare percentage of home wins to percentage of away wins.
Here I am going to address a second reason why what often is mistaken to be home court advantage really isn’t. The issue is that the concept of home court advantage requires that one compare how well a team does at home with how well they do on the road, when the opponents under these two circumstances are of more or less equal ability.
Teaching Rules and Skills
Beyond keeping the sport enjoyable for the athletes, it is also crucial to make sure your middle school team learns. Start out the first day with an overview of the sport. This is especially vital for a sport which is not quite mainstreamed, such as lacrosse or water polo. Even for the more popular sports, though, it is still important to provide insight into the big picture.
After your middle school athletes have a general understanding of the game, it is time to focus on individual skills. At this level, consider the very basics. Throwing and catching are important, rudimentary skills for a wide array of sports, such as football or baseball. Dribbling is one of the key fundamentals for basketball and should be developed at this stage. Skills like these might seem basic, but middle school athletes need to spend time working on them.
A great way to combine the large picture and the details is to allow your team to scrimmage, either intra-squad or with another local team. This will enable your middle school athletes to develop skills in real-game situations. As a bonus, scrimmaging goes a long way towards helping the children have fun, which is the primary objective for a middle school coach.
Although the hypothetical example is kind of weird, in reality this same situation occurs every year in every major college baseball conference. Let me explain. Major college baseball teams play roughly half of their games against other teams in the conference in home-and-away series. The other half of their games are against non-conference opponents. When I analyzed all of the baseball games played by teams in the SEC, ACC, Pac-10, Big Ten, and Big 12 Conferences from 1998 through 2007, here’s what I found. These teams played most of the non-conference games at home and they won most of those games. In fact, against the “easy” non-conference opponents, they won about 79% of the time at home. Against conference teams (those of more similar ability) they won about 56% of the time at home.
Pros and cons
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In home gardens and lawns, this is also a perfect choice. Not all homeowners are free to maintain their grasses and for these people, installing artificial turf is the better solution. This can even be used in roof gardens and areas surrounding the swimming pool.
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Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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