I wondered about the differential in fouls called on the visitors or the home team. So I crunched the numbers for the ACC WBB regular season games for last year. (A reminder that the number & mixture of which opponents a team played will impact these numbers.)
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On the whole, the home teams averaged about 10% fewer fouls than the visitors. But teams and individual games varied greatly.
The penultimate column (positive is better) shows a team's overall (home + away) foul differential compared to their opponents.
NC State by far had the best team as far as foul differential goes. They had an average (between home & away games) of 48 fewer fouls than their opponents (12 more fewer at home games; 12 less fewer at away games). That suggests they fared even better at home.
Virginia Tech fared quite well, but their home differential was almost as good as NC State, but their away numbers weren't close to NC State.
Clemson fared the worst in fouls.
Stanford had 18 fewer fouls as the home team and 8 more fouls as the visiting team (net of 10 fewer than their opponents).
If there were no home court advantage for fouls (and these numbers were a true measure), you might want to say Stanford should have an advantage of 5 fouls over the home games and 5 fouls over the away games. Then you'd say that the home court advantage was worth 13 fouls (=18-5) over the set of home games. (So, about 1.5 fouls per game). This is the home court advantage in the last column.
By that measure, NC State had a 12-foul home court advantage over their set of home games. Virginia Tech seems to have had about a 25-foul home court advantage over the set of home games. But Notre Dame had the biggest home court advantage of about 28.5 fouls (about 3 per game).
(Oh cool! Attachments work now! Thanks! I was even able to delete & replace the attachment when editing after posting.)
On the whole, the home teams averaged about 10% fewer fouls than the visitors. But teams and individual games varied greatly.
The penultimate column (positive is better) shows a team's overall (home + away) foul differential compared to their opponents.
NC State by far had the best team as far as foul differential goes. They had an average (between home & away games) of 48 fewer fouls than their opponents (12 more fewer at home games; 12 less fewer at away games). That suggests they fared even better at home.
Virginia Tech fared quite well, but their home differential was almost as good as NC State, but their away numbers weren't close to NC State.
Clemson fared the worst in fouls.
Stanford had 18 fewer fouls as the home team and 8 more fouls as the visiting team (net of 10 fewer than their opponents).
If there were no home court advantage for fouls (and these numbers were a true measure), you might want to say Stanford should have an advantage of 5 fouls over the home games and 5 fouls over the away games. Then you'd say that the home court advantage was worth 13 fouls (=18-5) over the set of home games. (So, about 1.5 fouls per game). This is the home court advantage in the last column.
By that measure, NC State had a 12-foul home court advantage over their set of home games. Virginia Tech seems to have had about a 25-foul home court advantage over the set of home games. But Notre Dame had the biggest home court advantage of about 28.5 fouls (about 3 per game).