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	NFL Betting - Home Field Advantage in NFL Betting
		Home field advantage in NFL betting is something that every handicapper and oddsmaker takes into consideration as they look at the NFL betting line.
		Home field advantage is not always the same in NFL betting.
		In addition to home field advantage in NFL betting not being the same for each team, it is also not the same throughout the season.
	www.sbgglobal.com /sportsbook/nfl-betting/homefieldadvantageinthenfl (679 words)

	The Value of Home Field Advantage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For the first 12 weeks of the season the average value of the home field advantage was 1.3 points.
		The proper impact of home field in a given week could range anywhere from 1.5 points to as many as 5, according to the bookmakers at Bodog.
		It's also worth noting that the historical trend of the home field advantage is that the impact is decreasing, likely due in large part to the easier travel and the shorter home stands that teams face.
	www.docsports.com /2006/home-field-advantage.html (989 words)

	Historical Trends in Home-Field Advantage
		The average home advantage in 1931 was.164, and then fell rapidly and dramatically afterwards.
		Home stands are not as long as they used to be and teams now travel by plane.
		The advantage listed for teams that changed parks in their respective decade only includes data from the park they played the most seasons in.
	www.geocities.com /cyrilmorong@sbcglobal.net/HomeRoad.htm (857 words)

	Testosterone Ups Home Field Advantage
		June 21, 2006 -- The "home field advantage" might be partly fueled by testosterone and a basic human impulse to guard your territory.
		That is, players may have tapped into a primal instinct to defend their own territory during home games.
		Of course, the home field advantage is still just an advantage, not a guarantee of victory.
	www.webmd.com /fitness-exercise/news/20060621/testosterone-ups-home-field-advantage (508 words)

	Home Field Advantage Athletics Campaign \| Giving to Hartford
		The University's "Home Field Advantage" Campaign is underway with the construction of facilities that are critical to the success of the university's Division I athletics program.
		Construction on phase I involved the renovation of an existing soccer and lacrosse field (Al-Marzook Field), the relocation and construction of a softball field, and the construction of a baseball field.
		The University broke ground on the HFA project in April 2005, and by the fall of 2005, soccer games were being played on the renovated artificial turf al-marzook field.
	www.hartford.edu /giving/campaign/athletics.asp (617 words)

	Deltoid » Home Field Advantage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For example, I assumed that the teams are evenly matched except for home field advantage, but if one team is better than the other, that increases the chance of a four game Series.
		When the trailing team was playing at home, they won 21 out of 28 game sixes, which is way more than you would expect from home field advantage.
		Another factor worthy of consideration in the results of games 6 and 7: perhaps home field is more likely to decide the result when the teams are closely matched than when they are not.
	timlambert.org /2004/10/homefield (1967 words)

	NFL home field advantage research
		Essentially the home field advantage seems to be over-stated when people claim it's worth a generic 2.5 or 3 points, since from week one to week twelve the average is 1.3 points, and then from week 13 on it averaged a whopping 5.3 points!
		Likewise using the 'home versus spread' sums instead of the 'home minus away' score average, shows that the smoothed effect has the away sides on top from week one to twelve, and then the home sides coming home strong down the stretch.
		At a first glance though, the wise men may elect to use a variable Home Field Advantage adjustment to their predicted scores, based on the time of year that a game takes place.
	www.twominutewarning.com /hfa.htm (699 words)

	Collegian • Opinion • Home-field advantage compromised
		Fresno State students attending home games at Bulldog Stadium are now relegated to sitting in the designated student section behind the goalpost in the south end zone.
		Although the new seating arrangement should have a tremendous impact by providing more donations to the scholarship fund, it is the students who unfortunately suffer the most from the move.
		While it is naive to think that there won’t still be a large number of fans who enter the stadium already intoxicated due to tailgating and other activities, the alcohol-free environment inside should allow most to regain their sobriety and eliminate many of the past security problems.
	www.csufresno.edu /Collegian/archive/2006/08/28/opinion/home.shtml (593 words)

	HFA? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Earlier this year I read on a college football blog (or was it a message board?) that home field mattered a lot, "especially in conference games." There's not a lot of unambiguous evidence that it really does if the teams are evenly matched, as I conjectured about this time last year.
		It is true that over time the home team wins about 60% of the time in almost all division 1 sports, but before you draw any conclusions from that you have to take into account that the correlation may be to be something other than the game location.
		The overall home winning percentage is pretty close to the 60 percent usually cited, and the overall "home field advantage" pretty close to the 3 points many use.
	football.kislanko.com /2006/HFA_10_06.html (352 words)

	Best Home Field Advantage? \| Walax
		and this is about home field advantage, so having a crowned field, not slanted, is an advantage to the rock, as is the grass, which the mercer kids never play on.
		This is a serrious advantage for prep because whenever any of the eastside kids (Bellevue, Issaquah) come over they are likely scared for their lives because they are soft and sheltered.
		The field is in horrible condition (barely worse than our field at Lakeside) but the location is the key to it being the "hardest place to play in the state".
	www.walax.com /best_home_field_advantage (2480 words)

	Xbox.com \| NCAA Football 2005 - Home Field Advantage
		It’s also important to note that the home field advantage won’t be the same in every stadium.
		Beyond the effects of home field advantage in NCAA Football 2005, it’s also nice to see the attention to detail Electronic Arts put into representing the stadiums and the fans.
		In the pros, playing at home is definitely an advantage, and chances are the home record is going to shine compared to the road one.
	www.xbox.com /en-US/games/n/ncaafootball2005/spotlight3.htm (638 words)

	The Home Field Advantage -- The Hardball Times
		Obviously, home-field advantage is in part a park-specific phenomenon; the home field advantage for the Rockies will differ considerably from the home field advantage of the Marlins.
		The distinction between observed home field advantage in the past and likely/potential home field advantage in the future is crucial.
		Home teams are more likely to reach base on groundballs, and they’re also more likely to turn any hit into a double or any extra base hit into a triple.
	www.hardballtimes.com /main/article/the-home-field-advantage (1390 words)

	SABR :\|\| SABR News \| Is There a Home Field Advantage in the World Series?
		In his recent article, “Is There a Home Field Advantage in the World Series?”, Abramowitz analyzed the 76 World Series games played under the current 2-3-2 home-away-home format adopted in 1925.
		In his research, he also discovered that home field advantage in the World Series is due almost entirely to the momentum gained by playing the first two games at home.
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	www.sabr.org /sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,420,34,0 (498 words)

	Home Field Advantage
		Home field advantage is predicated on a few things.
		First, the fact is the home team does not have the wear and tear of having to travel and be away from home.
		But there are weeks where the advantage seems to evaporate from the league and a majority of the visiting teams are victorious.
	www.nflpicks.com /home-field-advantage.html (528 words)

	Rivals.com - No place like home
		The stadiums have been cleaned, the gridirons groomed and the fields painted.
		Though Beaver Stadium's attendance numbers are impressive in their own right, the proof of true home field advantage lies in football records.
		The only time the home crowd sits down from kickoff to final whistle is during the opposing band's halftime show.
	www.rivals.com /content.asp?SID=1014&CID=444097 (1696 words)

	"Home Field Advantage" by Adam Conn, Founder -- ContractBud.com
		While the Metrodome is another architectural disaster, born of the ill-fitting multi-purpose drive of the 70s, moving the Twins out of their stadium would remove a tremendous home field advantage.
		The Packers have had the "frozen field" advantage from 1957 through the completion of the redevelopment.
		Perhaps there will be new advantages built into the ballpark, such as learning to play in 34 degree/30 mile per hour wind April games and 98 degree/98% humidity July games, but none will be as huge as the white dome of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome at 34 Kirby Puckett Place.
	www.contractbud.com /article.php?article=apc_homefield&source=archive (694 words)

	Minor Matters: Home Field Advantage in the Upper Minor Leagues -- The Hardball Times
		The home field advantage has been decreasing over time, and the splits for the month of May are just slightly more extreme than the splits from one year ago.
		In my earlier article, I noted that the home field advantage did not appear to be an issue in the Texas League.
		The home field advantage for striking out and walking is fairly robust across these five leagues, but the trends over time are not consistent.
	www.hardballtimes.com /main/article/minor-matters-home-field-advantage-in-the-upper-minor-leagues (1137 words)

	Independent Weekly: News: Features: Home field advantage
		This vacuous expanse of dirt sits directly adjacent to the field of dreams, pocked by calmly perched backhoes that intermittently break the listless continuity of the horizon, resting on the ground where people's homes once stood.
		Something that nobody could have anticipated happens on these fields when the sun begins to set on balmy summer nights, when the housing projects are overwhelmed by shadows and gently drawn away to somewhere outside this atmosphere.
		The light fixtures around the field will begin to wake up, and as the electricity crawls up through the wooden poles, the lights will do their best to bring life to Long Meadow Park, and the kids will take to the freshly lined field with the flickering energy of youth.
	www.indyweek.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:24763 (4673 words)

	HBO: Inside the NFL - Home Field Advantage By, Elliott Kalb
		Considering they are 8-1 at home, and only 3-4 away from Giants Stadium, it is a pretty, pretty, pretty big deal that the game between the Panthers and Giants takes place in the swirling winds four miles from New York City.
		The first game would be played at the home of the NFC team, the second game at the home of the AFC, and the third possibly at a neutral site that would rotate.
		The home loss crushed San Diego, and the loss of quarterback Roethlisberger (the Steelers were 2-2 without him) stalled Pittsburgh, as they tried to hold the fort without him.
	www.hbo.com /infl/columns/articles/kalb/20060102kalb.shtml (1225 words)

	Home field no big advantage lately - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The sweep by home teams in the wild-card round of these playoffs was the first since 2002 and followed an upset-laden 2005, when three of the four road teams advanced to the divisional round.
		The playoffs consist of 10 home games across the AFC and NFC: four on the first weekend, four the following week and then the two conference championship games to determine the Super Bowl teams.
		Home teams were 4-6 last year, the worst since going 5-5 in 1992.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2007-01-09-home-field_x.htm (375 words)

	OOTP Developments Forums - Home Field Advantage?
		Is it your assumption that home field advantage is a result of having a team that is constructed to perform at a higher level at home?
		I think home field advantage is a function of players performing at a higher level at home and a slightly lower level on the road, but not because of the way the team was built.
		I like the option of home field adavntage but I think the advantage is different from what some of you have been saying.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=61496 (1083 words)

	KeepMedia \| Mother Jones: Home field advantage
		Ferguson settles himself on the boy's bike and hauls off to the Packers' practice field a block away, Jason hanging on to his shoulder pads.
		Then Aaron Fields (6'4", 266 lbs.) walks into the sunshine, followed by Chris Gall (6', 247 lbs.), Ahman Green (6', 217 lbs.), and Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (6'4", 255 lbs.).
		Each in turn is offered a bike by one of maybe 60 eager boys and girls waiting near the locker-room door of the only team in big-league sports that is owned not by a wealthy individual or group of investors, but by its fans.
	keepmedia.com /pubs/MotherJones/2002/11/01/11358?extID=10032&oliID=213 (242 words)

	Kansas City Chiefs - Home Field Hokum
		Home-field advantage is significant if you happen to live in the NFC, which the Chiefs and Patriots do not.
		Sure, I know oddsmakers figure it’s worth three points to be home, and, yes, I also know that the only losses the Chiefs and Patriots incurred this season have been on the road.
		The Chiefs’ loss to Denver last weekend was critical not because it might have cost them home-field advantage for the playoffs but because it exposed a gaping hole in the defense that Clinton Portis exploited again, again and again.
	www.kcchiefs.com /news_article.asp?ID=NFYBJ3FFW3B9RHIS7HG6UJ5AZS (745 words)

	Home Field Advantage - Children's Ministry
		Home games were always in our favor—every coach knows there's nothing like home field advantage.
		One of the best home field advantages we have is the opportunity to seize teachable moments—those precious open windows with our kids when we know God is at work.
		To take the home field advantage, I let my kids know they were my heroes—that I was aware of the choices they made every day to follow Christ.
	www.christianitytoday.com /childrensministry/articles/homefieldadvantage.html (1528 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Bears Earn Home-Field Advantage In Playoffs
		Robbie Gould, who'd missed earlier in overtime from 37 yards, connected on a 25-yard field goal with 3:37 left to give the Bears the victory.
		Gould's field goal came after Davis made an over-the-shoulder catch of 28 yards on a third-and-8 pass from Rex Grossman to get to the ball to the Tampa Bay 20.
		Rattay hit Alex Smith with a 9-yard TD pass early in the fourth and suddenly the Bucs were within a touchdown.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_351170140.html (534 words)

	Home-field advantage nothing of the sort - The Boston Globe
		EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Conference leaders are awarded home-field advantage in the playoffs, but the Revolution were questioning that designation after a 1-0 loss to the MetroStars on the artificial turf at Giants Stadium last night.
		''It should be one game at the home [of the team with better record].
		Our first touch wasn't quite right and we were sloppy at times and, especially on this field, the ball will run away from you.
	www.boston.com /sports/soccer/articles/2005/10/23/home_field_advantage_nothing_of_the_sort (472 words)

	Home Field Advantage for the Saints in New Orleans - Associated Content
		Home Field Advantage for the Saints in New Orleans
		And I certainly do no want to come across as saying that the team is not a true contender, because they certainly have disproved that notion with their play.
		But it has to be admitted that their defense just isn't as talented as they seem to play at home.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/74749/home_field_advantage_for_the_saints.html (558 words)

	DenverBroncos.com -- Official Web Site of the Denver Broncos
		Since moving to INVESCO Field at Mile High, the Broncos are 16-7 at home.
		That is the third-best home-field advantage in the AFC over the past three years, behind the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins, who are both 17-5 at home since 2001.
		Unfortunately for the Broncos, the team with the biggest home-field advantage in the NFL over the past three years is their Week 17 opponents, the Green Bay Packers, who are 19-4 in regular-season games at Lambeau Field since 2001.
	www.denverbroncos.com /page.php?id=334&storyID=1752 (729 words)

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