{"id":795,"date":"2026-11-01T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T10:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/home-advantage\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T22:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:28:58","slug":"home-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/home-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"How much does home advantage still matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home advantage comes from the crowd, not having to travel and familiarity with the pitch. In many leagues, home teams still win noticeably more often than away teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don&#8217;t use one number for every team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some teams are very strong at home but ordinary on the road, and vice versa. Check the separate home \/ away records in the standings instead of looking only at total points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The schedule factor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An away team that has just played a midweek game far from home is usually at a bigger disadvantage. The schedule is a small piece of data that often gets overlooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing at home is still an advantage, but how much varies by league and by team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mfd3_reviewer":0,"_mfd3_trending":false,"footnotes":"","_mfd_ml_orig":"en_US"},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/score-goal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}