Validity of the Established Method of Quantifying Home Advantage in Soccer

A recent letter published in the Journal of Human Kinetics (Saavedra et al., 2014) falsely claims that inconsistencies occur in a universally accepted method of calculating home advantage when three points are awarded for a win. They go on to claim that an alternative method that they advocate is superior. The good news is that the authors have finally spelt out their methodology for calculating home advantage, so that readers can now see for...