Lowe: Home Teams Winning Games At Lowest Rate In NBA History (53.5%)

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[TroutMVP]

Chalk it up to incredible parity. How often are the 2 seed and 8 seed separated by only eight losses? In the East, it's a little different though. The 2 and 8 seeds are separated by eleven losses.

Ignoring outlier teams - Warriors, Hawks, Lakers, Wolves, Knicks, Sixers - every team is somewhere in the range of 32 and 15 wins.

[walk with me]

i don't know but I can't think of any teams that really DEFEND their home court this year ferociously.

[TroutMVP]

i don't know but I can't think of any teams that really DEFEND their home court this year ferociously.

Lul, what about the Warriors being 21-1 at home and the Hawks being 20-3 at home? That isn't ferocious?

[Knosh]

Chalk it up to incredible parity. How often are the 2 seed and 8 seed separated by only eight losses? In the East, it's a little different though. The 2 and 8 seeds are separated by eleven losses.

Ignoring outlier teams - Warriors, Hawks, Lakers, Wolves, Knicks, Sixers - every team is somewhere in the range of 32 and 15 wins.

What's the connection between parity and home court advantage though?

[Rasheeed!!!]

Very even teams apart from a few outliers. Makes for exciting basketball because most games a likely to be competitive.

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[soda]

Right, the warriors lost an early November home game to the spurs, and that's been it. At 21-1, the warriors have already clinched a winning home record for the 2014-15 regular season, and Atlanta will do the same with their next home win.

[TroutMVP]

Chalk it up to incredible parity. How often are the 2 seed and 8 seed separated by only eight losses? In the East, it's a little different though. The 2 and 8 seeds are separated by eleven losses.

Ignoring outlier teams - Warriors, Hawks, Lakers, Wolves, Knicks, Sixers - every team is somewhere in the range of 32 and 15 wins.

What's the connection between parity and home court advantage though?

It's hard to explain I think. You either understand or you don't. Basically, if there's more wins popping up in random places, because a lot of teams are pretty solid, then randomly a lot of those random wins will be road teams randomly beating home teams.

[rpa]

Chalk it up to incredible parity. How often are the 2 seed and 8 seed separated by only eight losses? In the East, it's a little different though. The 2 and 8 seeds are separated by eleven losses.

Ignoring outlier teams - Warriors, Hawks, Lakers, Wolves, Knicks, Sixers - every team is somewhere in the range of 32 and 15 wins.

I doubt parity has much to do with it. With extreme parity you'd expect the deciding factor to be home court advantage.

If anything I'd say it's the opposite: the lack of parity. Last year Milwaukee and Philly were the only teams that won less than 14 home games--they won 10 each. If you take out the Lakers then no team other than those 3 won less than 16.

This year, however, Minnesota & Philly are on pace for a whopping 6 (SIX!) wins at home. Other notables under last years 14 number: NYK (9), LAL (11), ORL (10), DET (13).

It's not parity--it's the fact that there are more horrible teams this year that can't even win consistently on their home court.

[kodo]

Chalk it up to incredible parity. How often are the 2 seed and 8 seed separated by only eight losses? In the East, it's a little different though. The 2 and 8 seeds are separated by eleven losses.

Ignoring outlier teams - Warriors, Hawks, Lakers, Wolves, Knicks, Sixers - every team is somewhere in the range of 32 and 15 wins.

What's the connection between parity and home court advantage though?

I was wondering the same thing.

I would think the opposite, the fact that teams aren't winning much at home means that the league is at its greatest point of non-parity, because when two teams are equal the home team will win.

[RoyalMajesty]

i don't know but I can't think of any teams that really DEFEND their home court this year ferociously.

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[amcfad27]

good

[Prince12]

I would've thought when two teams are even the home court advantage is nullified. The crowd is a factor but with all the travel involved in the schedule often coming home isn't neccessarily a break as you may have just flown in or about to leave anyway.

[Knosh]

Chalk it up to incredible parity. How often are the 2 seed and 8 seed separated by only eight losses? In the East, it's a little different though. The 2 and 8 seeds are separated by eleven losses.

Ignoring outlier teams - Warriors, Hawks, Lakers, Wolves, Knicks, Sixers - every team is somewhere in the range of 32 and 15 wins.

What's the connection between parity and home court advantage though?

It's hard to explain I think. You either understand or you don't. Basically, if there's more wins popping up in random places, because a lot of teams are pretty solid, then randomly a lot of those random wins will be road teams randomly beating home teams.

Yeah that sounds hard to explain. And I definitely don't unterstand it. Sounds randomly random to me.

[Knosh]

Chalk it up to incredible parity. How often are the 2 seed and 8 seed separated by only eight losses? In the East, it's a little different though. The 2 and 8 seeds are separated by eleven losses.

Ignoring outlier teams - Warriors, Hawks, Lakers, Wolves, Knicks, Sixers - every team is somewhere in the range of 32 and 15 wins.

What's the connection between parity and home court advantage though?

I was wondering the same thing.

I would think the opposite, the fact that teams aren't winning much at home means that the league is at its greatest point of non-parity, because when two teams are equal the home team will win.

I don't know, parity to me means teams have equal chances to win at a neutral site. Home court advantage seems to be complety unrelated to that. You can have complete parity with absolutely no HCA. So basically every arena is like a neutral site, 50/50 chance to win. Or you can have complete parity with an absolute HCA. Basically every team wins every game at home and loses every game on the road.
Don't see a causal connection between the two.

[andyhop]

Did Lowe mention the APBR thread that he got this all from or does he just pretend he thought of it himself?

[Chuck Everett]

The real answer is because there are WAY MORE back to backs due to the extension of the all-star break. This was precisely why I didn't want it extended just so Lebron can do media requests. It's like 99% of the league doesn't have these requirements (and he could easily decline them), so we have to suffer through more back to backs for one dude. Seemed like a change that didn't actually need to happen.

[Knosh]

The real answer is because there are WAY MORE back to backs due to the extension of the all-star break. This was precisely why I didn't want it extended just so Lebron can do media requests. It's like 99% of the league doesn't have these requirements (and he could easily decline them), so we have to suffer through more back to backs for one dude. Seemed like a change that didn't actually need to happen.

578 B2Bs this season vs. 560 last season. But home B2Bs are actually down from 176 last season to 171 this season.
http://www.nbastuffer.com/2014-2015_NBA_Schedule_Rest_Days_Analysis.html

[DavidSterned]

6 games on Tuesday and the home team lost every single one. Kinda nuts.

[miltk]

it's called parity