Evolution of the characteristic time intervals when playing home and away for each NBA team.

The panels show the characteristic time intervals between scores when playing home (τ_home, red circles) and away (τ_away, blue squares) for every team and season from 2004–05 to 2013–14, period in which the teams were the same. Here we have aggregated data from all quarters and estimated the characteristic times via maximum likelihood method. The shaded areas are 95% bootstrap confidence intervals. Notice that the characteristic times are systematically larger when the team plays away; still, we note some inversions and that the values vary among teams and seasons.