home-field-advantage Stories - Required Elements
Preview: How much is your home field worth?
It would be completely obvious to state that playing at home is a benefit for a soccer club. In other leagues, the aura that has come with some stadiums can play into the minds of opponents. For example, walking into Old Trafford or Camp Nou is surely intimidating, but how much of that is because...
Georgia Bulldogs 2011 Season Preview: The Auburn Game
On November 12, the Georgia Bulldogs will host the 2011 edition of the Auburn Tigers, who are apt to be the college football equivalent of the dismantled defending world champion 1998 Florida Marlins. One year after completing an undefeated national title run, the Plainsmen bring back only seven...
On Football Study Hall's Penn State Preview
A fantastic recent edition to the SBN family is Football Study Hall, written by Bill Connelly. Today, he published his 2011 preview of Penn State on SBNation.com and a companion piece on FSH regarding the true value of Penn State's homefield advantage. Pocket protectors...go. First, the preview. ...
How Good is Your Home Field Advantage?
Five weeks 'till kickoff...Five weeks 'till kickoff...Five weeks 'till kickoff... Phil Steele gave us a look inside his rankings of home field advantage data today. As he makes his predictions each week, he adjusts for home field advantage. Ah, but not all home fields are created equal. A trip to...
Book Review - Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played And Games Are Won
Every once in a while a book comes along that alters how you see the world around you. Scorecasting does that relative to sports by, as the book says, "overturn(ing) some of the most cherished truisms of sports and reveal(ing) the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football and...
Why Fans of the Georgia Bulldogs Should be Worried About the South Carolina Gamecocks
Although it has been a busy day, there is surprisingly little to report. My efforts to identify five teams that will be as good as or better than advertised (to go along with my five teams that will not be as good as advertised) have been stymied by the need to find that elusive sixth team, former...
Skate Canada: I laughed and I cried
I laughed and I laughed and I laughed Because the judging...kind of a joke, right? Home field advantage has not been this pronounced in recent memory. It was most evident in the program components scores. *I should also note that there was some other questionable judging, like the dinging of Mirai...
The Celebrity of Yu-Na Kim
Here's a cute article from JoongAng Daily that is worth a read just to get an idea of the mass celebrity of Yu-Na Kim: it’d only be a slight exaggeration to say all eyes will be fixed on this lithe skater. Kim is such an omnipresent figure that you could do the following on any given day. For...
Sprints is Under New Management // 08.10.09
About that title. With our normal Sprints man cocknfire visiting the fam this week, I'll be filling in the best I can. They won't be as long or comprehensive, and they probably won't come everyday, but don't say I never did nuthin' for ya. The long nightmare is finally over. After playing coy for...
Foley Field Needs a Facelift
Now that the Diamond Dogs have righted the ship, it is time to revisit an issue raised by Quinton McDawg back in March; namely, how to bring Foley Field up to the level of other S.E.C. baseball stadiums. Foley Field was built the year Vince Dooley won his first S.E.C. championship in football...
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