{"id":226874,"date":"2016-11-22T17:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=226874"},"modified":"2016-11-22T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:30:51","slug":"faster-slam-dunks-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/faster-slam-dunks-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster slam-dunks at home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ERIK DANIEL DROST \/ WIKIPEDIA<\/span>Slam dunk: Anthony Bennett scores for the Cleveland Cavaliers, in an NBA gameERIK DANIEL DROST \/ WIKIPEDIA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Statistical analyses of championships of collective sports like soccer have already proven that the \u201chome team advantage\u201d indeed exists. Playing on your own field is no guarantee of victory, but it tends to help. \u201cWe examined what happens during a match to create this advantage,\u201d says Haroldo Ribeiro, physicist at the State University of Maring\u00e1. Ribeiro and his colleagues Satyam Mukherjee, from Chicago\u2019s Northwestern University, and Xiao Han Zeng, from the US-based company Groupon, analyzed 16,000 basketball games from the 2001 to 2014 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a play-by-play analysis of each match, the researchers confirmed that all teams tend to score more points \u2013 and do it faster \u2013 when they are playing at home, especially in the first quarter of the game (PLOS One<\/em>, March 25, 2016). \u201cThe time interval between scores goes down,\u201d says Ribeiro, speculating that the cheering crowd and familiarity with the court may give the home team an initial edge. The physicists also noted that some teams seem to seize this advantage better than others, although the overall effect has been less apparent in recent NBA seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teams tend to score more in the first quarter of the game when playing at home","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-226874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226874"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=226874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}