A home advantage? Examining 100 years of team success in National Hockey League playoff overtime games
(Ein Heimvorteil? Untersuchung von 100 Jahren Teamerfolg in den Finalspielen der National Hockey League)
Objectives: To examine a potential home (dis)advantage in various types of playoff overtime games in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Design: Archival.
Method: Success rates for home and away teams in win-imminent overtime games (i.e., wherein a team has an opportunity to win the playoff series) were compared to their respective success in non-imminent overtime games (i.e., the outcome of the game does not determine the outcome of the series).
Results: When away teams had an opportunity to win a series, they were significantly more likely to win an overtime game compared to home teams. No such advantage was evident for home teams when they had an opportunity to win a series.
Conclusions: When an NHL team has an opportunity to win a playoff series, there appears to be an advantage for visiting teams—not home teams—in winning an overtime game.
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Schlagworte: | Eishockey Wettkampf Analyse Sportgeschichte USA |
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Notationen: | Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften Spielsportarten Biowissenschaften und Sportmedizin |
Tagging: | NHL Clutch Heimvorteil Heimspiel |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.02.010 |
Veröffentlicht in: | Psychology of Sport and Exercise |
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2019
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Jahrgang: | 43 |
Heft: | July |
Seiten: | 195-199 |
Dokumentenarten: | Artikel Literaturanalyse |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Level: | hoch |