Home field advantage?

[jello1717]

Quote: Originally Posted by DmoneyH3

Figured I'd add to this discussion. How do you move up in toughest places to play? Im Oregon and have fallen from 7 to 10 in year 3. I have a 13 game winning streak at home, have beat 3 #1's...but keep falling back..what gives?

Hopefully Adam can give us the answer to this, but here are a couple of my guesses. As I said, they're only guesses so take them for what they're worth.

1. I imagine you need to win often at home.
2. I imagine you need to have a fairly large crowd. Even if you've won 20 in a row, if you play in an open air stadium in front of 6,000 people, I wouldn't think that'd be a difficult place to play.
3. In games that you play, maybe you need to pump of the crowd a lot. If you're constantly pumping up the crowd (thus making them louder), maybe that'd help move you up the list.

I decided to hit up the search button. There's a couple replies from Adam in this thread:
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...aces-play.html
including this one:

Quote: Originally Posted by OMT

Not sure. There are a lot of factors like home record, win streak, crowd size, conference... I couldn't get UCF up there in 2008, but I couldn't get them in at all and assumed it was because they had a generic stadium. But 09 with an authentic stadium I was able to get to #1. I think I had like a 180 game winning streak lol.

[JAYMO76]

Personally I like home field advantage but I thought the last gen 06 home field advantage was simply amazing. The screen shaking and the noise level was great.

[DmoneyH3]

Thanks for finding that.
yea, my games are sold out and I haven't lost in 2 + years at home.
I plya big time teams there as well.

[JAYMO76]

Speaking of crowds has there been any discussion about making stadium crowds realistic. When a school is averaging 15,000 fans yet every seat is full it just looks ridiculous. Once again, EA developers hard at work