Talk:Home advantage

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Contents 1 What does this mean? 2 Merge from Away game 3 Rugby 4 Article Title

[edit] What does this mean?

Ok so I was happily editing away and found this sentence:

'Usually psychological in nature, these advantages include: a familiarity with the playing ground, the ability for participants to lodge in their homes...'

What does the bit in bold mean exactly? --iamajpeg 14:55, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Players on the road stay in hotels, but when their team is playing at home, they also sleep in their homes. It is usually easier to be well-rested at home than at a hotel. I've clarified this in the article. --Locarno 13:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from Away game

Agree with merge. It is the same subject, only discussed from the opposite view. --P199 23:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rugby

In Rugby Test Matches, when the two teams have the same colours, it is the home team who has to wear the alternate jersey. For example: Italy vs France. When this game is played in Rome, Italy wear white and France blue. When this game is played in Paris, Italy wear blue and France white.

[edit] Article Title

I'm not 100% sure that this article is properly named. Most references to the "topic" include field (as in - Home field advantage). I would almost think that we should call the article "home field" and incorporate the concept of home field advantage in to the article. I'm not really sure, but something just doesn't seem to fit with WP:NAME. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  07:44, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Most of the scientific articles concerning this subject use "Home advantage" or "Home effect", eg. "The home advantage in sport competitions: A literature review" by Courneya and Carron (1992), the follow-up article by Carron, Loughhead and Bray from 2005 and many others. The term "Home effect" is sometimes used, as some teams might have a negative effect from playing at home, and thus have no "advantage" of playing there. GregersP 12:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

There is a home (sports) article...IvoShandor 12:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

What I meant to emphasize was the support of the current title in scientific literature regarding the home advantage. GregersP 13:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)