Advantage Of Home Field Advantage

Team fandoms are one of many advantages sports teams in the NFL use to ease the financial load on their stadiums. In 2006 the Arizona Cardinals team officials decided

According to Tim Padgett and Shane Hunt, the winning percentage may have a big influence in game day attendance, but the athletic

Sports—which involve emotion, competition, cooperation, achievement, and play—provide a rich area for psychological study. People involved in sports attempt to master very difficult skills, often subjecting themselves to intense physical stress as well as social pressure. research has expanded into numerous areas such as imagery training, hypnosis, relaxation training, motivation, socialization, conflict and competition, counseling, and coaching. Specific sports and recreational specialties studied include baseball, basketball, soccer,

The value behind entertainment depends on each individual and their likings, implying that not every single human being enjoys playing sports. However, people who do seek enjoyment through athletic activities should know that such vigorous movement can permit various benefits. Competing 5 on 5 on the basketball court involves teamwork and a game plan. The 5 players on each team must create a clever strategy for allies to follow through on court. Possibly achieving a blind pass, jab step or block can make a victorious battle. Communication, team cooperation and interpreting the opponent’s next

Two heated debates arise when considering faults in modern-day college athletics. The first is in college football whether or not a playoff system should be implemented in order to determine a definite Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Champion. This major issue in college football has been temporarily solved with the approval of a four-team playoff starting in 2014 and ending in 2025 (Dinich 1). Though it remains highly exclusive to the top four ranked teams at the end of the season, there lies an opportunity to grow its structure. Second tier, Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) expanded the playoff from 16 teams to 24 teams by giving the top eight seeds a bye in round one. The second most controversial question recurring in college

This structural-stress gives all of them time to develop their time-management skills as well as many other advantages. The training is designed to produce well-conditioned young athletes that will be ready to out-perform the next team they face. This also leads towards the athletes living a healthy lifestyle and develop problem-solving skills. (Runya, Robin) One good habit can lead to many good habits to form. Some more advantages would be a rise in self-esteem, higher social competence, and students striving for higher levels of academic achievement. (Robin) Collegiate sports also can reduce the rate of arrests, unplanned pregnancies, and lowers the dropout rate. (Robin) In addition to these social and emotional benefits, sports can also bring about intangible benefits to the school and community as a whole. “Sports also create important opportunities for students to contribute to the school community, which may cultivate an increased commitment to, or identification with, school and school values.” (Taliaferro 397) The teamwork skills these men learn from playing football with affect them every day of their lives. They learn to trust each other on the field, as well as develop skills that can and will help them in their future careers. This leads to a greater social benefit we experience as they enter the

Coaches have become fond of saying things like, It's not whether you win or lose, it's the team that has the most fun. This thinking may spare feelings and reduce conflict in the short term but this story raises questions about the impact on society in the long run.

The live sporting event that I chose to observe was the 2015 Woman’s Soccer Big West Conference championship game with Cal State Fullerton competing against Cal State Long Beach. The game took place on Sunday, November 8th at 1:00pm at Cal State Fullerton. This game is significant because it determines who wins the Big West and who qualifies for the NCAA tournament, so pressure on the players and intensity are very high. Throughout the game, I observed the game as a sport psychologist professional and observed the player’s and coach’s behaviors that relate to Sport Psychology. The three sport psychology concepts that were interpreted during the soccer match were: situational awareness, arousal regulation strategies, and reinforcements.

Sports provide a reason to hang out with other people who enjoy watching, analyzing and cheering for the same teams. In the midst of a game, “you have guys hugging each other, cursing at the ref, and bonding by sharing a sense of commonality,” observes Edward Hirt, PhD., a professor of psychology at Indiana University. Even marriages, can benefit, too; nearly half of relationships get a positive boost from watching sports together (Kirchheimer, 2012, p.295). With social events centered on sports, it’s not just the shared sports, but the other shared areas of life that people happily talk about. Even commercial breaks can be a fun source of laughs and stories. Sports provide a way for new friendships to be forged and old friendships to be strengthened. Sharing good times together and developing friendships with fellow sports fans can increase happiness, which non-sports fans may not

While Millington and Wilson focus on a specific demographic, Messener et al. (1993) focus and compare the effects of sports

The “Role of Rest” study conducted by Oliver Entine and Dylan Small in 2007 provides insight into how playing games at home may provide an advantage. (CHANGE INTRO BASED ON CONTENT) Entine and Small drawn data from and analyzed the game results of the four major sports leagues in North America: National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Baseball (MLB), and the NBA. As a result, Entine and Small found that NBA has the highest percentage for a home-team victory, sitting on the top of the list at 60.8% comparing to 58.1% from NFL, 55% from NHL, and 53.5% from MLB. Judging from the data, they conclude that the home advantage in basketball is the biggest of the four major American pro sports. They then began to investigate

The study concludes that people who spent time with dogs before an exam felt less stress and did better on their exams. In the replication of the study, they found that there was not a significant difference. Despite using the same student population of Douglas College students, the puppy room with the same stress of final exams, they did not have a significant result. There could have been differences in the puppies or dogs that were in the puppy room, as breed or age, may have an effect on how much effect they had on participants. The semester may have also played a role as the replication was done at the end of the winter semester, those who had access to the puppy room before or may have learned to manage their stress if they did not go to the puppy room. There are also people who may have preferred kittens or bunnies to puppies and they could have changed the result. You could do a replication of the replication study to see if the animal type makes a difference to reducing stress and do it over all three of the semesters to see if either of these conditions impact the

The study utilized effect size analysis to identify “the practical strength of the conclusions about group differences or about a relationship among variables” (Clark & Creswell, 2010, p. 221). The study did not go into a great amount of detail on how data was collected for each study that was analyzed nor how the statistics were calculated, but did detail the parameters of each study. For example, the first set of studies reviewed utilized customer satisfaction as their variable on which data was collected from both coaches

Their second study the researchers continued to use a between-subjects design, however using a different sample size of 53 participants. In their first study the researchers found an issue with confederates treating participants differently even if they were not aware of it, so in order to eliminate this experimenters

American society has many different types’ sports from all around the world. For example, the main two contemporary sports are basketball and football. Both sports require people, a ball, and open area to play in. However, these two sports are played differently. By comparing and contrasting basketball and football, we can examine them in terms of how they’re played, the amount of people in each teams, and the location the sports are being played in.