Warrior General Games

Originally posted by WonderJP
Well, I'm quite new in GLB game, but I've noticed that the best team always win the games, there's no place for luck or surprise, even if both teams are very close from each other.

So maybe the home field advantage could help sometimes, to make games more " fair ", especially in the money time or for the important plays, and as we all know, in the " real life " a good team can lost a game, even if the opposite team is not the best ever....

no the Taos Hum have played spoiler for seasons

last season they upset New Amsterdam

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Haven't read most of the thread, but I think the best way to do it would be to give occasional confidence and energy boosts at certain points in the game. IRL, when is home field advantage the most important? It's in key situations or after big plays when the crowd really gets into it and the players adrenaline starts to rush more. This might be difficult to code, but it would be great if energy and confidence boosts would occur during these situations based on the size of the crowd and the amount of fan support.

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yeah good idea +1

My Different take on the Home Field Advantage

Originally posted by RoseBowlChamps
I feel like Home field should give at least give some bonus whether it be 100.01%(Home)/99.99%(Away) performance or slightly more extreme.

If a performance bonus is too imbalanced, then possible create a feature such as a "Chant" which once triggered would give the home side of ball (Offense or Defense) a stamina/morale boost or something like a +10 confidence boost for the play.

Chant could be available as either a upgrade purchasable through your stadium with something like 0.5-1% increments of triggering with a maximum of 5 or so upgrades. OR
The % of triggering could just always exist for all stadiums, but the frequency of the triggering would be in direct relation to current fan support.

Both ways to obtain kind of feed into the rich get richer idea, but I feel like the 2nd Option could be abused less as gut jobs couldn't just max out stadium and Chant upgrades in bottom leagues and then focus on winning. With the 2nd Option a successful season is the only way to improve your Chant triggering.

I feel like if this ever was implemented however,it would most likely have to be disabled for the playoffs or at least the Conference/League Title Games.

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Statistically speaking there is no such thing as home filed advantage.

During college in one of my statistics class I analyized EVERY NFL game for 5 seasons (from 1996 to 2001) and it was almost exactally 50/50 home team vs. visiting team wins and losses.

If I still had the paper I would post it but sadly my wife made me throw away all of my college papers and notebooks.....I KNEW I would need them someday!!!!

If this has been suggested then just consider this more support for the idea - but what about home field advantage that is fluid within a game, across the season, and across the life of a franchise. Playing at home doesn't always boost confidence. If your team is down 21 points your fans aren't pumping you up... quite the contrary. If you're going into a game with a 1-13 record, your fans probably aren't going crazy. If you're consistently a losing team, your fan base probably has some apathy. And the opposite is true for all of those. It would probably be very hard to code, but that's for them computer people to figure out, but it doesn't make sense to have home and away games without any on-field effects so it would be cool to see something like this. It could work both ways too... lets say a team is performing badly and the fans start to get on the players, the opposing team could benefit in morale or confidence.

To summarize, I like the idea of home vs. away have some sort of affect on performance within the game, but I think that it shouldn't be set (+5% confidence at home all the time) and should depend on the teams performance within that game and within the season.

Originally posted by womanizer
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Statistically speaking there is no such thing as home filed advantage.

During college in one of my statistics class I analyized EVERY NFL game for 5 seasons (from 1996 to 2001) and it was almost exactally 50/50 home team vs. visiting team wins and losses.

If I still had the paper I would post it but sadly my wife made me throw away all of my college papers and notebooks.....I KNEW I would need them someday!!!!

Where did you get this information. I remember doing research on this and I thought in recent years the winning percentage was a little over 55%. I just tried to look it up and I found a lot of data that says that home winning percentage usually falls into the 55-65% range every year, and the past 10 and 25 year winning percentages were 59%. This data was 2-3 years old, so it doesn't include the past few seasons (but still includes a lot of relatively recent data). Even if you are talking about 55%, usually the low end, 55% to 45%, that is a 10% greater chance of winning at home than on the road (I know that is over simplifying the math, but you see the idea).

I like the idea too.

good point, i know exactly what you mean. it would definitely make it more realistic

I just wanna bump this for fun, and see if people still agree on the topic

My suggestion would be to reduce the attributes of the visitor team players by a few %, this could add some " surprise " in this game.

I explain : when two teams are very close from each other, the one who is just a little bit better than the other team will win the game.

With the Home team advantage, it could help the worst team to be a little bit more efficient, and maybe win a game that they would have lost in the actual game simulation.

Maybe this Home team advantage % could be proportionnal to the number of ticket sold.

OK the statistics say it doesn't change a lot to play home or visitors, but on the very close games, I really think it helps to play at thome.

Originally posted by womanizer
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Statistically speaking there is no such thing as home filed advantage.

During college in one of my statistics class I analyized EVERY NFL game for 5 seasons (from 1996 to 2001) and it was almost exactally 50/50 home team vs. visiting team wins and losses.

If I still had the paper I would post it but sadly my wife made me throw away all of my college papers and notebooks.....I KNEW I would need them someday!!!!

See, you have to toss out the Lions from those stats, they skew them too badly.