</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Andy:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by DarkFudge:
<strong>JP...your right about baseball....numbers dont tend to support any kind of home field advantage consistantly throughout the entire league....However there is MOST certainly a Home field ( court ) advantage in NBA basketball and the numbers are definitely there. Its not a tangible/physical advantage but is most certainly a heavily induced psychological one that has a proven track record.
I kind of find it odd that only Basketball has such a home advantage phenomina that no other sport seems to clearly have...anyone have any ideas why it seems to only be prevalent in Basketball?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Good point.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Here's something i read and paraphrased:
Prior to games/matches, players on the home team have testosterone levels 3x higher than the visiting team. Something about the protecting your home kinda thing. I guess that the "warior" mentality is not as prevelant in "the boys of summer" as in "gridiron wariors"; basketball's "street" and "getto" aspects probably accentuate the home field testosterone boost.