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Investigations
The Disappearing Home-Court Advantage
Home teams don’t win the way they used to. A series of articles traces where the edge went: the whistle, the shift to threes, rebounding, and the suspects that turned out to have alibis. Start with the case in brief, or read the full series.
Also in this investigation: the evidence, test by test, including the explanations that did not survive; straight answers to the questions readers ask first; and what other researchers have found.
More investigations arrive as they’re finished.