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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Why are the number of home teams (12) and road teams (19) so different? That must mean a bunch of the road teams had a longer break and were playing against a team who had already played a game. Maybe a back to back even. It might kind of skew the results.
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Yeah, I was also quite surprised to see such a disparity between the number of teams that played on the road v. at home. It has something to do with there being two bye weeks, so not every team is off at the same time. Not every team played their first game after the break against a team that also was playing their first. Som teams played two games against a team playing their first game back.
No doubt, there are various elements which affect these numbers, but I think it shows that on the whole there is not a clear advantage to playing the first game after the break on the road.