Kinesiology 3388A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Standard Model, Sociology Of Sport

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3388A/B
• Professor: Natascha Wesch

Document Summary

Home teams win approximately 60% of athletic competitions. There are no sports in which athletes are consistently more successful away from their home. Describes the causal process connecting game-location factors to performance outcomes. Looks at 4 game-location factors: the support of the home audience, travel fatigue of the away team, familiarity with the home venue, competition rules in some sports that may favour the home team. These factors contribute to the psychological state of competitors, coaches and even referees (they do sway toward the home crowd) and have an effect on their behaviour all of which tend to favour the home team. Research has shown that home teams are more successful in the presence of a large positive/supporting crowd and that officials are biased towards the home team. The contribution of competition rules are minimal but home teams do win more at home, even without a crowd.