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Monday Night Football Is Rigged

The Statistics

During the 2000 season, overall, home teams were 138-110, thats a .559 winning precentage.  That means the home team wins a little better than half the time while playing at home.  Pretty much what you would expect, right?  Here are some averages from pervious years:

1999: 148-100 (.596).
1998: 151-89 (.629)
1997: 144-94-2 (.594)
1996: 141-91 (.607)
1995: 144-96 (.600)

Pretty much on target, the high being in 1998 when home teams did quite well with a .629 winning percentage.

However, during the 2000 season on Monday Night Football, home field teams were 14-3. That's an exceptional winning percentage of .824.

Disney may have realized their error in literally making the home field advantage such an advantage.  In 2001-2002, home teams were 7-8.  That's .467, which means Disney wrote the games in the opposite direction, making teams lose more often at home.

During the 2002-2003 season, which had the lowest average rating in the history (11.2) of MNF, home teams had a record of 10-7, with a .588 winning percentage.  To make the winning percentage more believable, ratings suffered.  The next logical step for Disney is the make 2003 full of home team victories.

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