Gardner-Webb

Home-field advantage · Gardner-Webb · 2018–present · FBS opponents

Gardner-Webb has been 9.1 points worse at home than on the road.

Worse at home, 0th percentile of 133 programs

0% at home, 0% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (0–1 home, 0–17 away).

Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, Gardner-Webb has beaten the number by 10.6 points less at home than away over 49 games — outside the ±9.0 that many games can resolve. This is one of the few buildings where the results say something the flat number does not.

Ernest W. Spangler Stadium seats 9,000 and has averaged 40% full (3,558, 10 games reported). Visitors cover a median 196 miles to get here (2018-present).

Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 35 home games since 2018. No national trip rank shown: the ranked field is FBS venues only and leaves out the service academies and venues with too few measured games.