La influencia del “home advantage” en el resultado de los momentos críticos en los partidos de baloncesto

The aim of the present study was to identify the variables that better discriminate winning and losing teams during critical moments of basketball games according to game location. An amount of 41 critical moments were analyzed, corresponding to 30 games of the regular season from Spanish profesional league (ACB, season 2007-2008). Games were selected according to the definition of critical moments (described in the available literature), which corresponded to overtime and the last 5 minutes of games with score differences equal or below to 6 points. The results revealed better values in the winning teams playing at home when compare with losing teams in defensive rebounds and successful free-throws, and conversely playing away the winning teams obtained better values in unsuccessful 2 points field-goals than losing teams.