The Homefield advantage Baseball betting

If you want to start earning with baseball betting then one of the things you need to understand would be the home-field advantage. Why you ask? Well if you may look at the NBA sports games, teams who are playing in their home-court have a 60% possibility of winning the game and has only 40% while on the road.

Since this is not the case in baseball, many novice gamblers do not take home field advantage into account when making wagers. The truth is that baseball home teams win 53.6% of the time as opposed to road teams winning 46.4%. Therefore the home team advantage is worth 7.2%.

That is why you won’t find a lot of baseball betting handicapping systems that are focused on road favorites. When a good pitcher is on the mound on the road, the home field advantage of the opponent is rarely taken into consideration. This 7.2% advantage gives us great value on the home team.

Baseball betting as you may see is all about statistics and numbers. You must of course take into consideration the precious 7.2% advantage that is given on the home team. This will help you whether to put your money on the home team playing. Taking a look at the history of the team would also help. Does the team wins on the home-field most of the time? Though there’s a statistic that say there’s a more than 50% chance for the home team to win, you might also want to check if the team you want on is not jinxed in their own field.

Let us analyze the win percentage of team in their home-field in a series.

Game 1: 54.2%
Game 2: 53.8%
Game 3: 53.5%
Game 4: 50.2%

We may notice the clear decrease of win percentage. This is simply because baseball teams play every day and in the first game, it’s a bit rough for the on the road team than on the team on the home-field. When the game has reached game 4, the win percentage of the home-field has been nullified because the teams on the road having the affects of travel subside, they have gotten used to being on the road and will probably face the game well set and prepared than ever.

In baseball betting, putting your money on the team on the home-field is mostly the best bet but don’t forget to do your own research and handicapping to back up your decisions.