General concensus seems to be that a smaller home advantage is best as home games should be winnable anyway, whereas a large away disadvantage is a massive penalty.
How to identify your home advantage
There are 2 ways you can check how your home/away advantage stack up. The first method is to look at your overall team stats and juist divide home wins by away wins - with enough games in the sample this should give a reasonable estimate of yuor home advantage. Below are 2 examples:
The number of match wins H/A = 84/44 = 1.91. This is very much on the high end and most teams seem to be around 1.6. Compare that with this team:
Compare that with this team where H/A = 83/62 = 1.34 which is a low home advantage. There is also a similar ratio in the number of goals scored home & away by the 2 sides.
Another way of checking for home advantage is to see how many bars the teams play to in home/away games. If your team regularly gets 3+ more bars in midfeld/defence (on the match report) at home than away then you are going to have problems/
A strong home advantage could be a massive problem and even stop a team reaching the highest levels in strong leagues. At least if you are aware of the problem maybe you can do something about it. You can try investing more in better defensive players than other parts of your team or dropping the tem offensive rating down a notch away - say play defensive rather than cautious more frequently. Also it may be worth checking out the home advantage of opposition teams prior to matches and any teams you are thinking of applying for.
Another way of checking for home advantage is to see how many bars the teams play to in home/away games. If your team regularly gets 3+ more bars in midfeld/defence (on the match report) at home than away then you are going to have problems/
How to combat strong home advantage
A strong home advantage could be a massive problem and even stop a team reaching the highest levels in strong leagues. At least if you are aware of the problem maybe you can do something about it. You can try investing more in better defensive players than other parts of your team or dropping the tem offensive rating down a notch away - say play defensive rather than cautious more frequently. Also it may be worth checking out the home advantage of opposition teams prior to matches and any teams you are thinking of applying for.
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