This year is a mess. Going to be tough to control for variables with the chaos caused by COVID with practice and scheduling.Seems that this years home court advantage is no less than others. If so, fans have nothing to do with home court advantage. Would be interesting to crunch the numbers when the season ends.
Variables among teams due to Civic equal out given the large number of teams. If the overall home court advantage of all teams is no less than it is in most prior years, there would be strong evidence that fan support is meaningless! in terms of its effect on outcomes.This year is a mess. Going to be tough to control for variables with the chaos caused by COVID with practice and scheduling.
Especially when you take a bad dump.
it's tough to win on the road regardless of whether fans are there or not. Having said that, the right fans make a difference. At the very least, it has been shown that some refs are effected by crowds. And certainly, college kids can get rattled by hostile crowds. These aren't robots out there.Variables among teams due to Civic equal out given the large number of teams. If the overall home court advantage of all teams is no less than it is in most prior years, there would be strong evidence that fan support is meaningless! in terms of its effect on outcomes.
There’s a book called Scorecasting - kind of a Freakonomics/Moneyball approach across all sports. Their evidence supports what you said; Home court/field advantage ultimately comes down to the refsI think the influence on refs is where fans come into play. I don’t think players at any level really care about how loud dudes are yelling in the stands. The noise could have a physical affect on communication but that applies equally to the home team and away team (it’s not like football where not hearing the snap count is worse for one than the other).