For the rankings this year, I have made some slight adjustments to the home ground advantages. To come up with the new values, I had a look at win-loss records by state, historical betting odds and margins, and advantages in other ranking systems.
The 'default' home ground advantage has now been re-set to eight points. Matches between teams in the same city still have a home ground advantage of zero. At the other end, I've kept the advantage involving Western Australian teams - which involve much higher travel distances - at 12 points.
I've applied these new advantages to the 2023 results as well, so the ranking points for teams were slightly adjusted from the end of last year even before the 'opening round' matches.
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