Home field advantage in the SEC

This article was written by a bammer, but the numbers don't lie. I pulled some pertinent facts from the article. The link for the whole thing is at the bottom.

Home Records of the 7 Traditional Powers of the SEC (as of 11/14/02 when the article was written)

Auburn 237-57-7 (.799)
Tennessee 387-91-17 (.7989)
Alabama 340-82-15 (.795)
Georgia 337-112-15 (.742)
Florida 253-86-13 (.737)
Ole Miss 280-113-12 (.706)
LSU 328-135-18 (.701)


Restricting the records to on-campus stadiums only (which knocks out Bama's Legion Field games and Ole Miss's Jackson games:

Alabama 186-31-3 (.852)
Auburn 237-57-7 (.799)
Tennessee 387-91-17 (.7989)
Ole Miss 211-57-8 (.779)
Georgia 337-112-15 (.742)
Florida 253-86-13 (.737)
LSU 328-135-18 (.701)

So in fact, LSU has the seventh-best home field advantage in the SEC. But guess what, Tiger fans? There are only 12 teams in the league, and two of those have only been around for a decade or so. This means that among longtime SEC members, the Tigers’ home field advantage is better than only Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt, who have a grand total of four conference titles between them – none since 1977, when Kentucky shared the crown with Alabama.

http://www.datelinealabama.com/article/2002/11/14/3290_opinions_art.php3

 

DO YOU WANT A COOKIE? WHO GIVES A DAMN...ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS THIS WEEKEND!!!

 

A Hallman or Dinardo will do that to you.

 

Hey TT, I did a little research and posted it on your site (it's under the LSU at night thread) .http://www.aunation.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1031&st=15

When you take out the "rent a wins", neither of us have anything to really brag about with home field advantage.

 

Thanks for the info, we are planning on addressing just that issue this Saturday.

Now since you can’t seem to approach this analytically. I’ll help.

Alabama 186-31-3 (.852) Total =220
Auburn 237-57-7 (.799) Total =301
Tennessee 387-91-17 (.7989) Total =495
Ole Miss 211-57-8 (.779) Total =276
Georgia 337-112-15 (.742) Total =464
Florida 253-86-13 (.737) Total =352
LSU 328-135-18 (.701) Total =481

These statistics are meaningless unless the same amount of games are played but all.

We’ll take a break and let you play a quick... oh, 180 games or so to catch and we’ll do a comparison then.

Numb nut

By they way these numbers seem like BS anyway

Have a nice day

 

that is when we had mo larry and curley for coaches. Look again since Saban has come to town..

 

They aren't meaningless when everyone on the list (the first one which counted all home games) has played over 300 games. It's not like comparing 10 games to 100.

And by the way, what you think "seems like BS" is irrelevant. Prove them wrong. Put up or shut up.

Have a nice day yourself, sunshine.

 

Fact is how can you predict what the numbers would look like unless everyone had the same number of games. It seems some may be “tradition challenged”. Who’s to say you wouldn’t lose 120 out of 180. What would that do to the numbers?


You are talking about a game played by different people over a spread of 100 years. And in doing so you are trying to prove a fact about how intimidating a venue is and implying that Ole Miss intimidated anyone.

When we were 3-8 DV wasn’t that intimidating, we ain’t 3-8 anymore pal and I suggest you stop by Saturday night for a quick lesson.

Or get busy on those 180 games
:shock:

 

Hey Titan,
Do you have anything to do but research a bunch of meaningless BS stats? Were gonna tee it up Saturday and you can take those stats and shove them. Go litter the AU board with that garbage. Are you coming to BR cause I got a special 12" corndog for AU pricks like you!

 

dhead (wow, how appropriate),

I know it doesn't mean anything on Saturday. I posted it to counter the myth of the Tiger Stadium mystique that gets thrown around. Your stadium isn't anything special compared to any of the other powers of the SEC.

If you don't like what I post, don't read it. Simple as that. And I'm not interested in what the miracle of plastic surgery has managed to do for your masculinity, peewee.