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home field advantage

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home field advantage
Sports medicine A phenomenon in which a baseball–or other–team playing competitive sports has a slight winning edge over the visiting team, which is attributed to psychological factors, but may be linked to interruption of circadian rhythm or jet lag, especially in teams traveling west → east
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The victory in the 79th All-Star Game gives the American League representative home field advantage in the best-of-seven World Series.
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Ask any player or manager about the benefits of home-field advantage and he will become positively euphoric but, really, there is no such thing in the postseason and expending any energy trying to attain home field advantage is a waste.
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For example, the Pittsburgh Steelers would not have clinched the 2004 home field advantage in the AFC until they beat Buffalo in the final weekend, instead of having it already clinched going into that game.
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