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Home Field Advantage in the MLB (Part 1) |
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Proloy Bhattacharyya |
By Proloy Bhattacharyya
NFLSystems.com
proloy@nflsystems.com
September 10, 2005
Of all the major sports, baseball is known for not having a great home field advantage. During the regular season, astute bettors will prey upon bookies by betting on teams that are in situations where the home field advantage is extreme.
Home teams win on average 53.6% of the time. This translates to a 7.2% advantage over road teams which is a smaller disparity compared to Basketball also Football.
Home teams in Football also Basketball feed off of their home town fans also are motivated. With baseball, it is most appropriate to try to find situations in which baseball teams will be more motivated.
Consider the Red Sox are 51-15 + 29 units the past three seasons at home off a home loss. Over the same span also angle, the Rangers are 47-33 +17 units also the Braves are 52-20 +20 units. These are three such teams that have a strong home field advantage given this situation. Because baseball is such an unpopular sport with bettors also this angle does not apply to all teams, the oddsmakers have not had to adjust on a situation as this.
Those three teams alone combined for 150-68, +66 units. This means that to even it out, the spread would have to be adjusted 30 points. So instead of being -130, the team would have to be -160. Instead of being +145, they would have to be +115. This is considerable in the eyes of most bettors. The normal home field advantage is already taken into account in the spread however it is the handicapper’s job to find profitable situations in which the home field advantage is higher also capitalize on it.
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