Disputing the effects of championship pressures and home audiences.

Abstract

New data led B. R. Schlenker, S. T. Phillips, K. A. Boniecki, and D. R. Schlenker (1995) to question whether home teams perform unusually badly (choke) when on the verge of winning a championship. Despite the new data, their main findings did not differ significantly from previous work that supported the «home-choke» hypothesis; they merely found that the erect dropped below significance. Their new data were confounded by a rule change favoring home teams. Their analysis omitted many games in which home teams apparently choked and lost. Also, their null findings did not justify strong conclusions. On the positive side, their new data on timing of errors did shed new light on and suggest modifications of previous theory. Implications regarding archival research are discussed

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