What is it about?
Current research advocates that HA is present when home teams win over 50% of home games played and that HA is a firmly established occurrence across a variety of sports. Therefore, evidence suggests that HA has a key role to play in influencing the outcome of a game. This paper examines the effect of divisional status, season and team ability on HA within Gealic football.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that home advantage (HA) is present (57.4%) and is significantly greater than the proposed 50%. While team ability would appear to have a significant influence on HA, where as season and divisional status does not. This research can be utilised to better support the players and management in their roles and functions in preparing for upcoming matches including team ability and match venue.
Perspectives
This paper provides new insights into home advantage (HA) in Gaelic Football, confirming that HA is present and is comparable with similar team-based sports. Team quality/ranking would appear to have a significant influence on the variance in HA, while season and divisional status does not appear to be significant. Future research should investigate the impact of crowd size, the distance travelled, familiarity and tactics with reference to their proposed bearing (if any) on HA within Gaelic games.
Lee Rooney
University of Ulster
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This page is a summary of: Home advantage in Gaelic football: the effect of divisional status, season and team ability, International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2018.1528523.
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