Major League Baseball during the COVID-19 pandemic: does a lack of spectators affect home advantage?
Abstract A home advantage is present in most professional sports leagues. Spectators may be a major factor in home advantage, but empirical results have been mixed. Professional games were played without spectators during the 2020 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigated home advan...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2022-05-01
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Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01193-6 |