ABSTRACT
One of the great pleasures of sport is to attend an event accompanied by family and friends and to cheer enthusiastically for a favorite local team. A casual review of the standings of most sports reveals the fact that a home team wins more than it loses and scores more points than the visiting opposition. What are the causes of the relative success of home teams? Do home teams have more advantage in some sports than others? How does playoff and cup home advantage compare to the regular season home advantage? These are some of the questions that I hope to answer in this section. A review of the work of Pollard (1986, 2002, 2006) and Stefani and Clarke
(1992) and others suggests three primary factors contributing to home advantage.
