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Originally Posted by The Fonz
I was looking for an advantage in picking the winners, so I took a look at the regular season games so far this season. The sample size isn't very large (55 games), but so far, the home team has only won 51% of the time. Interesting, I was expecting that number to be up around 60%. Apparently "home advantage" doesn't exist, not in the regular season anyway.
Anyway...just thought I'd share that!
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I've always found that strange too. Hockey is the sport that should have the most home advantage (last change, last to put stick down on face off, good/bad ice, lively/unlively boards etc...)
But every year it seems to be 50%. Whereas sports like basketball and football have a HUGE home advantage.
I'll give this a shot.
Oct 18
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MIN
CBJ
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