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Home advantage in Home Nations, Five Nations and Six Nations rugby tournaments (1883-2011)

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  • Miguel Saavedra García
  • Óscar Gutiérrez Aguilar
  • C. Juan Vázquez Lazo
  • Paulo Sá Marques
  • J. Juan Fernández Romero

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This study evaluates the home advantage (percentage of points obtained playing at home) in Home Nations (HN), Five Nations (FN) and Six Nations (SN) tournaments between 1883 and 2011 obtaining a global significant value (p<0.001) of 60.99±1.57. The home advantage (HA) was calculated during different periods of the competitions taking into account the tournaments and teams (between 4 and 6 participants, depending on the competition). The HA is significant in all the periods, except in the HN 1932-1999. The evolution of the values of the HA is irregular until the professionalism of rugby (1995) a moment from which the values stabilize. The comparison in the HA between the different types of competitions didn’t find any significant values. When the HA was compared between the teams significant differences were found (p<0.001) at a global level, in FN and SN tournaments. The classification of a team (-0.720) and the number of points won (0.729) has a significant association with the HA.

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  • Miguel Saavedra García & Óscar Gutiérrez Aguilar & C. Juan Vázquez Lazo & Paulo Sá Marques & J. Juan Fernández Romero, 2013. "Home advantage in Home Nations, Five Nations and Six Nations rugby tournaments (1883-2011)," International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 51-63, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:13:y:2013:i:1:p:51-63
    DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2013.11868631
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    1. Delbianco Fernando & Fioravanti Federico & Tohmé Fernando, 2023. "Home advantage and crowd attendance: evidence from rugby during the Covid 19 pandemic," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 19(1), pages 15-26, March.
    2. Federico Fioravanti & Fernando Delbianco & Fernando Tohmé, 2023. "The relative importance of ability, luck and motivation in team sports: a Bayesian model of performance in the English Rugby Premiership," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 32(3), pages 715-731, September.
    3. Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu & Corrado Lupo & Paolo Riccardo Brustio, 2021. "A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze Home Advantage during COVID-19 Pandemic Period with Regards to Margin of Victory and to Different Tournaments in Professional Rugby Union Competitions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(23), pages 1-8, December.

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