SPRING 2022, VOLUME 3
Home Field Advantage in English Premier League
AUTHORS
Sofie Aird, University of Pennsylvania (Moneyball Academy)
Madeline Kim, University of Pennsylvania (Moneyball Academy)
Connor Olson, University of Pennsylvania (Moneyball Academy)
Santiago Balbontin, University of Pennsylvania (Moneyball Academy)
ABSTRACT
Playing a match on a team’s home field and hometown provide a number of advantages over a visiting team, including home fans, playing on your own turf, and things as simple as having your own trainers. We aimed to quantify Home Field Advantage (HFA) in the English Premier League (EPL), as determined by goal differential. Additionally, we explored one factor that could of impact HFA; attendance (i.e. crowd size). The data set includes match result and fan attendance from three EPL seasons, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019.
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