Citation

García MS, Aguilar OG, Fernández Romero JJ. J. Hum. Kinet. 2014; 42: 5-6.

Affiliation

University of A Coruña (Spain).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Academy of Physical Education Poland, Publisher Walter de Gruyter)

DOI

10.2478/hukin-2014-0055

PMID

25414734

PMCID

PMC4234747

Abstract

A recent letter sent to the Journal of Human Kinetics' editor (Gómez & Pollard, 2014) warned about a supposed methodology error in the calculation of home advantage in football (soccer) leagues used in Saavedra et al. (2013) and took the liberty of modifying the research's data. The aim of this letter is to demonstrate that the evaluation system of the home advantage proposed by Pollard (1986) contains serious inconsistencies when applied to competitions which give three points for a win and one point for a draw, as it is the case of the UEFA football leagues in the 21th century.

Language: en