It's the refereeing. Refereeing can affect outcome much more greatly in BBall

Jun 1, 2023
11:31:38am

rcbyufan All-American

and the majority of calls are subjective on some level. In addition, the crowd greatly affects the calls. This just doesn't happen in Football and the crowd in baseball just isn't that on top of the umpires.

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The NBA has the most significant home advantage (by far) of the major team

BGRTHNUMEGO

6/1/23 11:28am

Probably the “distractions” waiting at every visiting teams’ hotel.

Tokolosh

6/1/23 11:30am

Which World Series recently went 7 games and the visiting team won each time?

scootsy

6/1/23 11:30am

Nationals v Astros 2019

DodgerCoug

6/1/23 1:00pm

Altitude clearly matters. Wow. Nuggets and Jazz have best homecourt in NBA and

macdizzle

6/1/23 11:31am

It's the refereeing. Refereeing can affect outcome much more greatly in BBall

rcbyufan

6/1/23 11:31am

Yep this has been studied. Home court is almost entirely due to disparities in

Memmo

6/1/23 11:34am

Has to be a significant factor, even though our resident ref expert

BGRTHNUMEGO

6/1/23 11:34am

I bet another factor is how close the fans are to the players.

crack

6/1/23 11:35am

Also that they allow mascots to distract players shooting free throws.

robin

6/1/23 12:12pm

So what you're saying is the Nuggets and Jazz have no room to complain

Huge Manatee

6/1/23 11:46am

About being tired? Probably not.

BGRTHNUMEGO

6/1/23 11:50am

Actually I would say it’s pretty simple.

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