Sentences with phrase «on home field advantage»

The ball's in Barnes and Noble's court, and they're focused on the home field advantage of 720 storefronts.

This looks to be a situation where the books put too much emphasis on home field advantage and a season's worth of results.

Can the Royals capitalize on home field advantage?

To get back to the Super Bow for the third year in a row, they'll have to do it on the road this year, rather than relying on the home field advantage the CLink offers.

Not exact matches

CentureLink Field provides one of the most noticeable home advantage of any team in the league; it's incredibly loud (fans generated so much noise during Saturday's defeat of the New Orleans Saints that it caused a minor earthquake), making communication among players on the opposing teams virtually impossible.

The Philadelphia Eagles had a tough, but ultimately successful, Christmas night, beating the Oakland Raiders, 19 - 10, on a frigid Monday evening to secure the top seed in the NFC and home - field advantage throughout the 2017 postseason.

For now Gowalla, based in Austin, has a home - field advantage, «but despite that Foursquare arguably came out on top last year,» says Mooney.

At the end it was all three points for the host Arsenal as some element of home advantages and personnel qualities counted in favour of the hosts on the field of play.

Many intelligent sports betting analysts have pointed that it is flawed to view home - field advantage as a flat value, instead arguing that it should be viewed as a modifier based on tempo.

«But most of the time, home - field advantage doesn't mean a lot to the oddsmakers, and the betting public usually places a greater value on it than it should.»

The Dodgers are still 3.5 games up on the Nationals for the best record in the NL and the postseason home - field advantage that comes with it, but that lead was much more significant not all that long ago: Following Aug. 25's games, Los Angeles had 91 wins and the Nats had 76.

Clearly home - field advantage has been vastly overvalued, which has created contrarian value on visitors.

As Grant Brisbee pointed out on Monday, MLB finally got things right when it comes to World Series home - field advantage, and the seasons of the Dodgers, Nationals, and Indians are proof of that: Who has the top record does matter, and the Dodgers are, one game at a time, wasting the incredible lead for it that they had built up over the summer.

Similarly, we have seen bettors chronically overvalue home field advantage which has created tremendous value on visitors (in every sport except baseball).

I don't know if it's because the high ticket prices exclude the drunker, noisier fans, or if the environment is too much like a club / movie theater to encourage the fans to create a home field advantage, but it doesn't surprise me at all that Dallas is better on the road.

of expanding the playoffs and giving teams home field advantage based on rankings.

The Atlanta Falcons have an opportunity to secure a first - round bye and home - field advantage throughout the playoffs with a win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night at Ford Ffield advantage throughout the playoffs with a win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night at Ford FieldField.

The game appears statistically close but the intangibles of the home - field advantage, the return of Ray Lewis and what's on the line will give the Ravens a slight advantage that I see them finally not blowing in the games closing moments.

Home - field advantage is usually worth about 2.5 points, which means you would expect to see a 5 - point line move based on changing venues.

The betting public seems to like the combination of home field advantage and momentum that the Yankees have built, as 77 % of all moneyline bets have been coming in on the «Evil Empire» despite a pitching matchup that would appear to favor Detroit.

The Falcons actually have a slightly better net YPP spread than the Saints, implying this game should be closer to a PK on a neutral field — and at least Falcons -3 after accounting for home - field advantage.

In this article, we focus on Betting Against the Public and Home field advantage.

Houston also gained on Cleveland for American League home field advantage and are only two games back in that race.

Past research has also found that bettors place too much importance on home - field advantage, which continued last week with home teams going just 35 - 42 ATS.

Last week I explained that home - field advantage has been overvalued by college football bettors, and that visitors have historically provided value on the point spread.

The Patriots would be favored in five of the six Super Bowl matchups and, assuming three points for home - field advantage, would also be favored over the Vikings on a neutral field.

Since the San Antonio Spurs (45 - 8) are on their heels for the top seed, Golden State will likely concentrate on securing home - field advantage throughout the playoffs before resting any players.

DIVISION II Getting a rare chance to win a section title on its home field, the Cosumnes Oaks team took full advantage to celebrate in their own backyard.

The victory improved the Patriots to 12 - 2 on the season, secured a first - round bye in the 2017 NFL Playoffs, and pushed Bill Belichick's team within striking distance of securing home - field advantage throughout the postseason.

The Tide has played several neutral - site games at AT&T Stadium and figure, based on geography alone, to have a nice home - field advantage.

We have also found that football bettors tend to place too much weight on the importance of home - field advantage, which has created additional value on road teams — especially if they're on a prolonged road trip.

With home - field advantage and a pitcher's edge at Petco Park, the National League has a good opportunity to turn the tides on Tuesday.

Past research found that home - field advantage has been vastly overrated, which has historically created value on visitors.

I have also found that bettors tend to place too much weight on the importance of home - field advantage, which has created additional value on road teams.

It's not necessarily that home field advantage isn't valuable in those sports, it's that home field advantage isn't worth as many points on the spread as bettors tend to believe.

It is the 11th time that the league's top seeds will be matched up in the big game since 1975 (when the NFL's playoff format began basing home field advantage on teams» regular season records), and recent trends favor a Seattle victory: the NFC has won the last six Super Bowls between No. 1 seeds.

Though some have said that home - field advantage has begun to be overstated in the Premier League, results based on the closing odds prove otherwise.

The Chargers took care of the Broncos at home just a couple of weeks ago, so perhaps odds makers placed too much value on Denver's home field advantage.

The Dodgers have home field advantage, so we're kicking things off with Clayton Kershaw pitching on full rest, which... does not happen as often as you might think!

The real test of home field advantage is comparing the home / road differential impact it can have on a teams» performance.

Not for Vegas but for DFS, if a team is going to face the Rockies and we want to be invested in that team, then it would be better for us if the team forfeited its home - field advantage and played on the road: The team would likely score more runs at Coors.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parehome games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pareHome Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

What is unclear at this time is the role former Deputy Borough President Barry Grodenchik, now running to replace Marshall, may have played under the allegedly sanctioned hit jobs which often occur on city time (and at the taxpayers expense) giving an unfair home field advantage to Helen Marhsall's number one guy.

National Football League — On Tuesday, in his thorough examination of home - field advantage in the NFL...

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Google still has some ground to make up in the U.S., UK and Germany, but it should be on a level playing field and may have an advantage in other geographies now that it will have the Google Home Mini in its corner.

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