Legit point because there aren't enough neutral site games between a diverse enough sample to get an interpretation. Is it home court advantage or road court disadvantage?
But just doing pure numbers would be easy enough. Someone with a subscription could just compare the difference between actual score and Kenpom projection at home vs road for ACC teams in ACC games.
He credits an 8 point swing between home and away. He had a lengthy Twitter conversation with me, here is what he had to say.
Ken Pomeroy @kenpomeroy
@BSD_RaJohnston Just being bad makes it possible. I just don't know how lack of prep/motivation would only be an issue on the road.
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25m Ken Pomeroy @kenpomeroy
@BSD_RaJohnston Partly explained by bad Wake teams and CU normally has larger home/road splits than most. Rest unexplainable or bad luck.
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32m Ken Pomeroy @kenpomeroy
@BSD_RaJohnston I'm in the minority, but I don't think it says anything about a lack of character or is of use in a predictive sense.
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Riley Johnston @BSD_RaJohnston
@kenpomeroy So Jeff [Redacted] is 2-43 on the road at Wake and Colorado. Is it just because he is a bad coach or is there something more to it?
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22m Ken Pomeroy @kenpomeroy
@BSD_RaJohnston I mean, what about a coach would make him particularly bad on the road? I'm open to theories...
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20m Riley Johnston @BSD_RaJohnston
@kenpomeroy I'm not disagreeing with you or anything. Really curious how we can be that bad on the road the past 3 years. 1-34 or something.
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14m Ken Pomeroy @kenpomeroy
@BSD_RaJohnston How many times over that span have they been favored on the road?
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12m Riley Johnston @BSD_RaJohnston
@kenpomeroy Probably very few. I agree with you there, but how many times have we failed to come close to the spread?
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8m Ken Pomeroy @kenpomeroy
@BSD_RaJohnston That should be your research project.
Riley Johnston @BSD_RaJohnston
@kenpomeroy Not sure of the answer but it feels like we are never close. I'll do some preliminary research. This year we are 2-3 vs. your spread.