Home court advantage is an often confused term in sports literature that encompasses a variety of factors. Our goal is to identify and quantify home court advantage in the National Basketball Association within a causal framework, and to conduct an extended sensitivity analysis to measure the robustness of our estimated effect. The traditional omitted variable bias framework succeeds in providing an interpretable way of approaching sensitivity analysis, however it also introduces subjectivity in interpreting sensitivity plots and does not extend to multiple confounders very well. By reparameterizing the omitted variable bias framework in terms of R2 we can use expert knowledge to formally bound the strength of unobserved confounders and provide a more systematic way to conduct sensitivity analyses. We use the imbalance in number of rest days between home and away teams to gauge the robustness of our estimated home court advantage effect.

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.

"Home court advantage is a term that has been used throughout the basketball world by everyone from broadcasters and TV analysts to athletes and coaches to fans. It is a reference to the perceived benefit that the home team receives by playing in their own arena or stadium. Much of the prior research on home court advantage has centered around the reasons that it exists and how it impacts the play on the court through box score statistics. Building on this previous research, this study performs a statistical analysis of men's college basketball to determine if home court advantage is reflected in a team's record of wins and losses and its winning percentage. Using data from the last seven full seasons from the Big East Conference, the researcher utilizes hypothesis tests with different setups to confirm or deny a statistically significant home court advantage for each individual team and between teams in the conference"--Leaf 1.

This text provides a comprehensive view of sport and exercise psychology, with the latest research on mental health of athletes, effects of COVID-19 on athletes, mindfulness, legalized gambling, psychological issues surrounding the 2020 Olympic Games, and drug controversies.

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