Explaining Home Team Advantage in College Football With Data Analytics!

A Tenable Explanation For Why Home Teams Have More Success Than Away Teams

Jon McEwen
7 min readJun 4, 2023
Photo by Andrew Gearhart on Unsplash

Perhaps no phenomena are more closely statistically measured, tracked, and contested than sports. Yet despite all the attributes and measures, one statistical point remains, in part, a mystery: why does the home team…

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