Which teams may be affected by lack of home-field?
The Athletic’s Sheil Kapadia uses TruMedia’s expected-points model to explore which NFL teams might be affected by the lack of home-field advantage this season:
“What we know about home-field advantage is that it exists, but it has been shrinking. But beyond that, there are a lot of questions. Over the past 10 seasons, home teams have won 56.7 percent of their games, compared to 43.3 percent for away teams. But which individual teams have benefitted the most from home-field advantage?
To answer that question, we looked at Expected Points Added (EPA) at home and on the road for each NFL team over the last five seasons, using TruMedia’s data.”
Full article: The Athletic