Originally Posted by
Troublemaker
I can't link to it because it's behind a paywall. But someone I trust has told me that KenPom came out with his first estimate for homecourt advantage this season, and it's 2.25 points. (Obviously different places/arenas will have slightly different advantages; 2.25 is just the average).
So, yeah, if in non-Covid seasons, the homecourt advantage is about 3.5 (the most popular estimate, although sometimes I see it as low as 3.1), then so far, HCA is still about 60-65% as strong as it was before, i.e. the impact of fans (and their impact on refs) is less than half of HCA. Pretty much what I expected in the preseason. Now that's a decent amount to slice off, but things like sight lines, no travel, etc. still represent the majority of HCA.