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Good Question: How Much Does The Home-Field Advantage Help?

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Seahawks are coming to our town this weekend. Seattle is favored by five points, but can some subzero temperatures and a lot of SKOL give us an edge?

That had Bill from Elk River wondering: How much does home field advantage matter? Good Question.

Toby Moskowitz co-wrote “Scorecasting,” and he says the home field advantage is very real in every sport, every time in history.

Moskowitz’s stats found that over time, when teams are evenly matched, the home team wins — 53.9 percent of the time in Major League Baseball, 55.