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I have the same sentiment, home court advantage seems pretty big this playoffs. Not sure about previous seasons though. Here are my games.

Quarterfinals (Home) (110598337)

My starting SF played only 4 minutes due to injury. Even with less effort, I beat my opponent by 35 points. I thought at this time this is only due to salary difference (586k vs 392k)

Semifinals (Home) (110671211)

I won both league games against my semifinal opponent but both games were close. My $66k PG was limited to 16 minutes due to foul trouble and my $102k SF had only 10 minutes due to injury. Even then, the game ended with garbage time with me winning by 20 points.

Finals Game 1 (Home) (110701664)

My opponent played 2-3 zone against my LP, but I was still able to reach garbage time leading by 30 at the end of 3rd. Before garbage time, I limited my opponent's PG/SG/SF to 23% shooting.

Finals Game 2 (Away) (110701665)

I thought that given the result in game 1, plus better game shape and salary, I would win comfortably in game 2, although I expected it to be closer. Somehow their starting PG/SG/SF managed to improve the shooting from 23% to 41% with their backups shooting 73%! I barely managed to squeeze out a win in 2OT coming back from behind.

I have the same sentiment, home court advantage seems pretty big this playoffs.

Well I was able to win on these playoffs playing away. There are usually too many factors on BB but in this case, we played two matches exactly in the same way so the number of factors is reduced and there are too many points of difference on the table, so one BB analyzer could maybe take some infos and share some conclusions

For sure there is random in this game but I can't believe it is so big cause if you see BBB or NT matches I've never seen similar teams having 50 points of difference in the final score (let's not consider the point missing due garbage). Again this is quite an unique case when two teams played in the same way reducing a lot the number of factors that decides a match

I think the fact that it is such a unique occurence means that it is just a statistical outlier that happens even with a balanced engine. I think that's OK.

so checking the results of the two games which is your opinion? Random? In that case it means I was superlucky on my home match and very unfortunate in my away match, correct?

My opinion is that this could very well be the case.

Tnx

I have the same sentiment, home court advantage seems pretty big this playoffs

it has always been