Re: Home advantage and capping.
"It isn't always about how loud the home crowd cheers (or boos).... "
QFT.
As I mentioned in another thread, I did my fair share of traveling around in mid-major womens basketball. Crowds of 300 or so in 8k+ seat arenas.
But I would estimate that home-court advantage was still worth roughly 3 points even in that kind of league. This was especially easy to see because they would play most of their in-conference opponents at home and on the road and you could just look at the results.
Not necessarily comparable to the NFL of course. But it's all a part of human and athlete psychology I believe.
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