Homebodies vs. Road Warriors

[Fightin Choke]

In viewing today's action, Plebe noted:

Iowa is afflicted by the same home court hero syndrome as Michigan State. They are undefeated at home (14-0) but only 6-4 on the road.

That got me thinking about which teams truly capitalize on their home court advantage, and which teams make terrible house guests.

Looking at the top 50 teams in Massey, I constructed these two lists of each team's home court advantage:

The Homebodies
5.71 Mich. St.
4.69 S. Dakota St.
4.29 Iowa St.
4.15 Michigan
4.08 Baylor
4.04 Iowa
4.01 S. Dakota

The Road Warriors
1.28 Clemson
1.72 Kentucky
1.83 Miss St.
2.11 Cuse
2.15 FSU
2.19 Miami

Here are the home field advantages by aggregated by conference:

3.64 B12
3.52 B1G
3.48 PAC12
3.22 MAC
3.07 Big East
2.94 American
2.54 SEC
2.38 ACC

A few thoughts:

• As a Road Warrior, it's not surprising that Miami was so tough @Louisville, but it is surprising that they upset Notre Dame at home.
• UConn (3.54) is rated as a homebody despite their huge road win @Notre Dame; perhaps due to their 2 losses on the road.
• Notre Dame (2.74) is a modest Road Warrior, despite 2 of their 3 losses being on the road.
• Of the top 20 teams in Massey, Mississippi St. is the best Road Warrior and Iowa St. the best at home.
• The ACC can't hold serve at home very well.
• The B1G and B12 do not travel well, with the PAC12 similar.
• Seems like the biggest homebodies are from the Midwest.

Thoughts?

 

[eebmg]

Not clear on your methodology. Are you doing a differential between a home Massey Power rating and an away Massey power rating? That seems most natural to me.

 

[Fightin Choke]

Not clear on your methodology. Are you doing a differential between a home Massey Power rating and an away Massey power rating? That seems most natural to me.

No, that's far too convoluted, as Massey reports the data directly.

If you look at the Massey ratings (LINK), one of the columns is HFA (home field advantage).

If you look at the conference ratings (LINK), you also just note the HFA column.

 

[eebmg]

No, that's far too convoluted, as Massey reports the data directly.

If you look at the Massey ratings (LINK), one of the columns is HFA (home field advantage).

If you look at the conference ratings (LINK), you also just note the HFA column.

Thanks. Keep it simple stupid.