Open AccessVisualizing the Impact of Home Advantage in National Basketball Association-NBA
Author(s) -
Ekas Singh Abrol,
Puneet Singh Lamba,
Anjana Jain
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
computer applications : an international journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2393-8455
DOI - 10.5121/caij.2021.8302
Subject(s) - basketball , league , association (psychology) , psychology , advertising , team sport , adaptability , applied psychology , marketing , business , athletes , medicine , management , geography , economics , physical therapy , physics , archaeology , astronomy , psychotherapist
In sports, home advantage describes the benefits that the home team enjoys over the away team. These benefits are manifested due to cognitive effects that the local home crowd may have over the competitors or umpires, advantages of playing in familiar situations resulting in better adaptability, specific rules favouring the home team directly or indirectly, the away teams often suffer from jet lag due to change in time zones or from the tenacity of travel, etc. In this paper, various exploratory data visualization techniques have been utilized to observe the impact of home advantage in professional basketball association league NBA- National Basketball Association. Further the factors attributing to home advantage in sports are analysed. It was observed that when the team had performed well at home games, the results reflected the same for away games; however, home advantage was still distinctively visible.