On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:57:59 -0600, John Whelan wrote: >On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Nathan Hampton wrote: > >> What percent of hockey games are won by the home team? 66% may seem >> reasonable but it depends upon the level of parity in the sport. <snip> >This Bradley-Terry-Davidson-Beaver rating system is >realized for college hockey as KASA (KRACH Adjusted for Site >Advantage) <http://www.uscho.com/rankings/?data=kasa>. Using the figures there, in games between two evenly-matched teams, the home team will win 0.585 of the time. This automatically sidesteps the issues of relative strengths of home and road teams (and so is a fair measure of home ice advantage). Cheers, Ken. -- Ken Butler Brampton, Ontario, Canada