Please visit this link to check out our app: https://edav-fall2019-jhs.shinyapps.io/ice-hockey/
Home team advantage is a common phenomenon in sports. Intuitively, we expect a team to perform better in their home arena. They are used to that location, have their fans to support them, don’t need to travel to it, etc.
But what does it really mean to have an advantage? Looking below the level of wins and losses, what happens to teams when they are at home and away? Does their style of play change? Are there some places that are harder to play at than others? Are there teams that perform better when away compared to others?
Explore this app built with Shiny in R to answer these questions.
Reference: All data used in this project have been scraped from NHL website
To test the app on your local computer please follow the steps as mentioned below:
- Clone the repository
- Run packages.R
- Run global.R
If you want to downloaded more up-to-date data from NHL you may use the scripts in /data/