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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/05/analyzing-the-home-advantage-in-english-soccer-with-r.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>It's well-known that the home team has an advantage in soccer (or football, as it's called in England). But which teams have made the most of their home-field advantage over the years? Evolutionary biologist (and Liverpool fan) <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://jogall.github.io/2017-05-12-home-away-pref/">Joe Gallagher analyzed the percentage of points won</a> in the UK Premier League (which awards 3 points for a win and one point for a draw) for teams at home and away:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b7c8f792e1970b-pi"><img title="PL-points" alt="PL-points" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b7c8f792e1970b-800wi" border="0"></a></p>
<p>On average, Premier League teams win around 60% of their points at home. The green bars show the 10 teams who won most of their points at home (Burnley managed only a single away win and an away draw in their 2009 season) and the purple bars shows 10 teams who defied the odds to win most of their points in <em>away</em> games.</p>
<p>Joe used the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/documents/what-is-r/">R language</a> to perform the analysis and create the chart above, with the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mran.microsoft.com/package/engsoccerdata/">engsoccerdata</a> package providing the historical home/away score data (augmented with current-season data from the web). You can find the R code used to perform the analysis, along with several other interesting analyses of the data, at the link below. </p>
<p>Joe Gallagher: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://jogall.github.io/2017-05-12-home-away-pref/">Home advantages and wanderlust</a></p>
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