What is the impact of fan support on sports games?


by

Eddy Milfort

Various events were affected by the pandemic of the new coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19), but professional sports games are gradually restarting, and in Japan, professional baseball on June 19, 2020 (Friday) Has started and it has been decided that the soccer J1 league will resume from Saturday, July 4th. However, as a measure against COVID-19, the spectator's entrance is restricted and there will be no spectator match for a while, so unlike the previous games, the 'spectator cheer' will be lost. Alex Russell , a researcher at the International Gambling Think Tank at the University of Central Queensland, explains the 'impact of fans cheering on sports games.'

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As a measure against COVID-19, some broadcasting stations that relay sports games where the audience has disappeared are trying to broadcast with 'fake cheering' according to the game, like a laughter inserted in a comedy program There are also some places. If you look at the embedded movie below, you can see how the Australian broadcasting station plays the “cheering sound” according to the play, creating an atmosphere as if there is an audience.



People who watched the game that was actually broadcast with fake cheers received not only positive but also negative opinions. However, there are many broadcasting stations that are trying to broadcast with cheering, and there is a false cheering in the broadcast of the German football league Soccer Bundesliga , and there is also an option to give artificial cheering in the English Premier League. Is being considered .

According to Russell, people who support one sports team feel connected with people who support the same team. This feeling of belonging is a great motivation for people, it can move people's thoughts and feelings significantly, and allow fans to share the joy of winning the team and the sadness of losing. And the presence of cheering has the effect of clearly distinguishing each team, even for spectators who have never played the sport. The effects described above can be obtained by listening to the cheering from the spectators at the stadium over the TV even when watching a live TV broadcast instead of watching a local game.



Regarding the reason why people attach importance to 'cheering for fans' in sports games, Mr. Russell said, 'It gives a sense of unity by connecting fans and acts as a clue to focus on the scene of opportunities,' he pointed out the role of cheering. .. No matter how great the players play, or the team's chances, the only thing you can hear is not how exciting it is between the players. 'Without cheering, sports seem less exciting,' Russell said.

For this reason, Mr. Russell said that cheering fans are 'a clue that it is an exciting scene' while watching regular games, and people unknowingly rely on cheering to enjoy the game. He said. For example, if a player scores a goal, the audience will get excited, and if the scores are at the end of the match, the audience will create a tense atmosphere, and if the team they support wins, they will cheer and share their joy. If there is no cheering during the match, these elements will be eliminated, the fans will not get a sense of solidarity, and it will inevitably lack excitement.



It has also been pointed out that the presence of cheering may affect the outcome. Professional sports teams have the concepts of 'home' and 'away,' and generally, teams playing on the home ground or home arena are considered to have an advantage. To investigate this point in a 2015

study , we conducted a survey of two professional basketball teams, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers , who actually home the Staples Center indoor stadium in Los Angeles . It was

Since both the Lakers and Clippers are home to the Staples Center, neither team had the disadvantages associated with away teams such as long movements and unfamiliar stadiums, but it is set for each match whether it is home or away. , There was a fluctuation in the sales of watching tickets. The survey found that the Lakers and Clippers were more likely to win 21 to 22.8% of the time, even though the Lakers and Clippers were playing under the same conditions except for the crowd. Researchers believe that the difference between home and away is due to the cheering of the audience.

It has also been found that cheering by fans not only supports the players, but also the referees. A 2010 study found that home-playing teams are often harder to be prosecuted or yellow cards or other dispositions: ``The referees unknowingly used the voices of fans to make decisions. It is because it is.”

It may be because the home team is less likely to take a foul, because the fans who packed the venue make a big reaction to the foul of the opposing team, but the reaction to the foul of the cheering team is smaller. is. The referee unknowingly uses cheering unknowingly as a clue, so it may be easy to underestimate the foul of a home team with a small reaction.


by Hayden Schiff

When watching live sports on TV, you may feel as if you're being forced to cheer if you hear fake cheers when there are no fans in the stadium. But cheering fans helped make sports games more exciting, Russell said.

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