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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on HOME Advantage in Different European Professional Basketball Leagues

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Alonso, Enrique, Lorenzo, Alberto, Ribas, Carlos, Gómez, Miguel Ángel·2022·Perceptual and Motor Skills
DOI 10.1177/00315125211072483PMC PMC8894916
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Abstract

Our purpose in this study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on home advantage (HA) in sports by comparing European professional basketball games in which spectators were present (pre-pandemic) with “ghost” games in which spectators were absent (during the pandemic). A secondary objective was to analyze how team ability interacted with HA by comparing HA affects pre-pandemic and during the pandemic in the context of differing team ability levels. We used Wilcoxon and Mann–Whitney U tests to identify HA through differences in home win percentages (HW%) between pre-pandemic and pandemic games. Additionally, we ran the Kruskal–Wallis test to identify HA and HW% differences between different team ability levels (high to low). Teams had higher HA and HW% pre-pandemic than during the pandemic. In turn, low level teams presented a higher HA compared to teams at other team ability levels. Thus, low level teams benefited more from playing at their home-court. However, low level teams showed lower HW% than medium and high team ability levels, showing that team ability is more important than HA in determining game outcomes.

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  1. Fabian W., 2021, PLoS One
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Authors
Alonso, E., Lorenzo, A., Ribas, C., & Gómez, M. Á.
Affiliations
  • Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (ES)
  • Facultad de Ciencias de La Actividad Física y Del Deporte, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Universidad Europea de Madrid (ES)
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES)
Corresponding author
Alonso, Enrique
ORCID
Venue
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2022-02-27
Volume
129
Issue
2
Pages
328-342
ISSN
  • 0031-5125 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-688X
DOI
10.1177/00315125211072483
PMC
PMC8894916
OpenAlex
W4210443904
Semantic Scholar
d1b5250600d36ed6cb1e697b6a0e52dc9063b059
Cited by
44
References
16
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 4
FWCI
6.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Perceptual and Motor Skills (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • Hispana (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • ABACUS. Repositorio de Producción Científica (Universidad Europea) (submittedVersion)
  • UPM Digital Archive (Technical University of Madrid) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Orthopedics and Sports Medicine › Sports Performance and Training
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, home advantage, professional basketball, ghost games, team ability, athletic performance
MeSH terms
COVID-19, Basketball, Humans, Pandemics

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