Re-evaluating the role of attendance on home advantage: Evidence from an international rugby tournament

Dawson, Peter, Downward, Paul, Hogan, Vincent and Massey, Patrick (2023) Re-evaluating the role of attendance on home advantage: Evidence from an international rugby tournament. International Journal of Sport Finance. ISSN 1558-6235 (In Press)

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Abstract

Home advantage has been documented in many sports. It is hypothesized that higher attendances, likely dominated by home-team supporters can be a source of this advantage either through influence on match officials or by spurring the home team to greater efforts relative to the away team. We examine this latter hypothesis using a dataset of 1,030 matches over eight seasons, 2012/13 to 2019/20, in the Pro- 14, one of the three major European Rugby Union leagues. Our results initially display strong evidence of home advantage. However, once we control for team quality, home advantage is significantly reduced. Further our results also indicate that home advantage is not explained by the impact of attendances on team performance (effort).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	attendance,home advantage,rugby
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2023 12:31
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 12:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92646
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