• Game 4 of BO5 โ€” home team advantage is real and here's the number

    Across 1,200 BO5 series played on LAN vs online format: home region teams (playing on local servers) win game 4 at 58.3% rate vs 48.9% for visiting teams. That's 9.4 percentage points. In betting terms this is enormous. Any model ignoring server location is leaving money on the table.

  • Across 1,200 BO5 series played on LAN vs online format: home region teams (playing on local servers) win game 4 at 58.3% rate vs 48.9% for visiting teams. That's 9.4 percentage points. In betting terms this is enormous. Any model ignoring server location is leaving money on the table.