Date	Opponent	Record	RPI	SOS	Coach	Record Against	Spread	Result
03/11/14 am	Bridgewater St.	8-1	47	134	Sim AI	0-2	+6	64-62	l
03/12/14 am	Gallaudet	0-9	378	282	shonmurphy20	3-2	-3	30-45	w
03/13/14 am	Gettysburg	5-4	219	295	Sim AI	1-1	+1	42-57	w
03/14/14 am	at Maine, Farmington	6-3	79	94	Sim AI	0-1	-3	60-65	l
03/15/14 am	Trinity (TX)	8-1	62	259	bobmeyer	1-3	+11	53-54	w
03/16/14 am	Gordon	3-6	176	45	Sim AI	1-0	-2	40-58	w
03/17/14 am	at Old Westbury	5-4	157	149	Sim AI	0-2	-5	57-60	l
03/18/14 am	Pacific Lutheran	7-2	101	198	coachjwade	3-5	+4	59-63	w
03/19/14 am	at Yeshiva	5-4	217	226	Sim AI	0-2	-6	56-57	l

This team is 5-1 at home and 0-3 on the road.   I know it's a very small sample size but it has me thinking about the effects of HCA ( or maybe the penalty associated with it) in relation to player IQ.   This team starts 3-4 freshmen every game with D+ and lower IQ's. 

It seems that most people on the boards discount HCA as a minor factor in D2 and D3 but I am wondering if it has some sort of synergistic effect with IQ.

Just wondering, any thoughts on the topic would be appreciated.

I don't have any bigger sample, but I do remember my very first HD team, which was pretty much all freshmen and sophomores, went 11-2 on the road and 7-6 at home. 

I'll give you the exact opposite effect actually. Same world - starting 4 freshmen and 1 soph, changing O/D. only 2 losses at home, 3-0 on the road. And really there is nothing to see here of significance imo.

03/11/14 am Kean 4-5 268 267 Sim AI 3-3 -2 66-63 l
03/12/14 am Wilkes 7-2 154 316 Sim AI 1-4 +8 72-69 (OT) l
03/13/14 am at Gustavus Adolphus 2-7 318 217 Sim AI 3-0 +1 70-48 w
03/14/14 am at MacMurray 3-6 291 243 Sim AI 4-2 -10 65-53 w
03/15/14 am SUNY New Paltz 6-3 179 350 Sim AI 1-1 -1 58-97 w
03/16/14 am Stevenson University 3-6 299 235 Sim AI 2-1 -16 52-69 w
03/17/14 am St. Norbert 7-2 40 110 Sim AI 2-1 +4 60-70 w
03/18/14 am at Frostburg St. 7-2 185 340 Sim AI 1-1 +1 65-60 w
03/19/14 am St. John's 5-4 83 55 kwietstorm 2-0 -3 62-84 w

The boxscore from that 45-30 game just hurts my eyes.

I have some video of the 17-14 2nd half.   The RL coaching staff's of Wisconsin and Penn State almost immediately emailed me asking about it.

Posted by Trentonjoe on 3/19/2014 10:18:00 AM (view original):
I have some video of the 17-14 2nd half.   The RL coaching staff's of Wisconsin and Penn State almost immediately emailed me asking about it.

Ha +1

I would agree if those teams had a better home court advantage, but at D I feel there's very little difference between a road game and neutral sight. I was talking to a fellow coach yesterday and he was talking about how bad his team has been shooting free throws lately, and he was thinking maybe home court played a role there, that would be interesting to find out. 

i am totally confused by this thread.

how could HCA have a negative effect?

On the away team.