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In many sports, it is commonly believed that the home team has an advantageover the visiting team, known as the home field advantage. Yet its causaleffect on team performance is largely unknown. In this paper, we propose anovel causal inference approach to study the causal effect of home fieldadvantage in English Premier League. We develop a hierarchical causal model andshow that both league level and team level causal effects are identifiable andcan be conveniently estimated. We further develop an inference procedure forthe proposed estimators and demonstrate its excellent numerical performance viasimulation studies. We implement our method on the 2020-21 English PremierLeague data and assess the causal effect of home advantage on eleven summarystatistics that measure the offensive and defensive performance and refereebias. We find that the home field advantage resides more heavily in offensivestatistics than it does in defensive or referee statistics. We also findevidence that teams that had lower rankings retain a higher home fieldadvantage.

How Much Does Home Field Advantage Matter in Soccer Games? A Causal Inference Approach for English Premier League Analysis