what sport has highest home-field advantage?

[kmak]

Per a picture above, Duke basketball. NO COMPARISON

Also, in hockey, the home team has a faceoff advantage.

[TDouble]

On paper it's baseball and it's not even close.

Other factors considered (NBA officiating, playing in Death Valley, etc) it's a lot different.

[TDouble]

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Per a picture above, Duke basketball. NO COMPARISON

Also, in hockey, the home team has a faceoff advantage.

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Wait, people watch hockey?

[Turkish Mickey]

i don't get why the NBA's the highest. the court's are the same everywhere, the rules don't favour the home team, i would think they would be lowest. what gives?

[By-Tor]

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i don't get why the NBA's the highest. the court's are the same everywhere, the rules don't favour the home team, i would think they would be lowest. what gives?

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ref's

[Homer]

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i don't get why the NBA's the highest. the court's are the same everywhere, the rules don't favour the home team, i would think they would be lowest. what gives?

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refs, players care less than in any other sport, etc.

[David H]

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in Boxing some hometowns or countries you basically have to win by knockout to get the win.

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Damn, beat me to it. Boxing is the answer, and I don't think it's close.

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Yup...case in point, many, many fighters from the UK refuse to fight in the US, and vice-versa.

[JuntMonkey]

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i don't get why the NBA's the highest. the court's are the same everywhere, the rules don't favour the home team, i would think they would be lowest. what gives?

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refs, players care less than in any other sport, etc.

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Is it really just refs you think? Travel fatigue? I don't buy any of the "crowd inspires them" nonsense. When you have a big crowd chanting for your team you're magically able to shoot a higher 3-point percentage (along with everything else)?

[Jeff W]

Boxing.

[heater]

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Hockey

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There was a 4-5 page article in SI about this a few years ago.
the main reason is that every time there is a faceoff, the home team gets to wait for the visitors to put their new lines on the ice before they make their changes. It's hockey hands down.

*edit* I just glanced over a little more of the thread and a couple of the links and maybe I'm wrong. I swear SI had some pretty convincing evidence that it was hockey, though.