Does Home Ice Matter?
The league-wide home-ice edge, and how it changes by tier.
Home win rate
47.4%
Away win rate
42.7%
Across 7934 finished regular-season games.
By tier
Home ice tends to matter less the better the teams get — too noisy to model per-division, but a real league-wide effect.
| Tier | Games | Home win | Away win | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 2106 | 50.0% | 41.8% | +8.2 |
| Upper Gold | 1743 | 46.4% | 43.7% | +2.7 |
| Gold | 1298 | 49.5% | 43.6% | +5.9 |
| Platinum | 1280 | 45.8% | 39.6% | +6.2 |
| Elite | 1038 | 45.1% | 44.4% | +0.7 |
| Gold Group 2 | 301 | 45.2% | 45.8% | -0.6 |
| Gold Group 1 | 168 | 41.1% | 44.0% | -2.9 |