Home field advantage Re: Childish things was Re: That Age Thing

> Allan Goodall wrote:

This is now wildly off-topic but I have some numbers to throw out ...

A quick look at this week's Premiership table (the English football
league) shows a 133-64 advantage to the home teams. So the home teams do
33% better than you'd expect if there were no home field advantage.

I also did some research into cricket statistics for a computer game a while
ago and came up with the fact that overall, batting and bowling averages for
home team players are 5% better than the norm and away team players perform 5%
worse.

Quite how this relates to SG2 / DS2 / FT I'm not sure ...

> In SG2 terms, maybe not a die shift in quality die, but perhaps a

The football advantage is enough for a quality shift one way or the other.

> Quite how this relates to SG2 / DS2 / FT I'm not sure ...

In SG2 this is nicely accounted for by motivation levels. The home side is
always more motivated to win. This is almost always the case in war as well,
usually with a much bigger advantage.

> > In SG2 terms, maybe not a die shift in quality die, but perhaps a