{"id":21,"date":"2007-09-20T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2007-10-07T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T19:49:35","slug":"home-field-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"home-field advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing caught my eye in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=8\">Curve Ball book<\/a>: batters playing at home hit 12 points better than on the road. Makes sense, but it&#8217;s almost as big as the lefty\/righty match-up difference, which they say is 15 points. And yet, AFAIK, there are no adjustments in TPB to take home-field advantage into account.<\/p>\n<p>A quick run of the Retrosheet game logs proves the home-field advantage for wins &#038; losses:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n              HOME WINS       ROAD WINS\r\n            --------------  --------------\r\n1960-1969    8603 (54.03%)   7319 (45.97%)\r\n1970-1979   10644 (53.78%)   9149 (46.22%)\r\n1980-1989   10995 (54.12%)   9320 (45.88%)\r\n1990-1999   11554 (53.52%)  10033 (46.48%)\r\n2000-2006    9166 (53.93%)   7831 (46.07%)\r\n\r\n<b>1960-2006   50962 (53.86%)  43652 (46.14%)<\/b>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost 8 points. Not as large as 12, but, of course, there&#8217;s more to winning than hitting!<\/p>\n<p><b>2007-10-07:<\/b> The Commish&#8217;s comment re capturing home-field advantage in Park Effects is very interesting. I might even replace the LHB\/RHB categories with home\/visitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing caught my eye in the Curve Ball book: batters playing at home hit 12 points better than on the road. Makes sense, but it&#8217;s almost as big as the lefty\/righty match-up difference, which they say is 15 points. And yet, AFAIK, there are no adjustments in TPB to take home-field advantage into account. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">home-field advantage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-stats","category-triple-play-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}