fans behavior in baseball games

 

OCTOBER 12, 2012 It Helps to Boo the Opposing Pitcher Baseball pitchers threw 40% fewer strikes when the crowd jeered than when it cheered, according to an experiment led by L. Kimberly Epting of Elon University. The research, which took place in a college setting, shows that the real value of fans' behavior during a game may be in their antagonism toward the opposing team, the authors say. Basketball players' free-throw accuracy, however, was the same whether the crowd was cheering or jeering. Source: Cheers vs. Jeers: Effects of Audience Feedback on Individual Athletic Performance