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Summary (from 4277 words): From a study of 18 players, testosterone levels fell from 88th percentile among males their age to 32nd percentile by midseason. Their grueling travel schedule, and not the exertion of on-court play, was to blame as non-player personnel also experienced similar declines. Studies show five hours of sleep per night over the course of a week lowers testosterone levels by an equivalent of 11 ye…
I have often wondered if professional sports in an effort to increase profits, increase the number of games in a season (MLB 162 games, NBA 82, NFL 16) plus pre-season, training camp etc. I think they may actually be decreasing their profitability because the quality of play suffers from the grueling schedules, not only sleep depravation but injuries and etc. Also, there could be a factor of over saturation; the game…
A recent trend is "load management" where superstar players like Lebron James, Kawhi Leonard, and the Warriors, will sit out a large portion of regular-season games. The thinking is that if their teams are good enough to get to the playoffs without them playing all 82 games, so why risk an injury to your $200 million dollar player for a meaningless game instead of saving their energy for the playoffs?
This makes fans really mad because they pay for tickets to see the star players. Players I'm sure appreciate that it reduces mileage on their bodies and lets them stay fresh and avoid injuries.
I have often wondered if professional sports in an effort to increase profits, increase the number of games in a season (MLB 162 games, NBA 82, NFL 16) plus pre-season, training camp etc. I think they may actually be decreasing their profitability because the quality of play suffers from the grueling schedules, not only sleep depravation but injuries and etc. Also, there could be a factor of over saturation; the game…
http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance/_/year/2019/sort/homePct
Edit: I can't find the numbers for courtside attendance, but it's possible that ticket income for the teams at the bottom of that list is either lower or higher than the overall % suggests, depending on how in-demand the highest priced tickets are.
Every year when I go to re:invent, Amazon's big conference in Las Vegas, I schedule nap time from 3pm to 5pm. When I'm there I meeting with lots of different people, from as early as 7am to as late (early?) as 1am, and sometimes I'm out till 3am or later. That nap is the only thing that makes it bearable. And I get mocked for it and I don't care. But sleep is no joke. I also do all the blue shift/night shift stuff on…
Off topic a bit, but I have a small sony flatscreen tv in the house. The only one, but the kids use it all the time now. Does anyone know of a way to "night shift" those things? Kids are trying their best to get into university, so I get that late studying is necessary. I even get that some kids prefer to watch some things on the TV. (Youtube/Netflix documentaries etc.) I've replaced lights, etc. But the TV is still…
I have often wondered if professional sports in an effort to increase profits, increase the number of games in a season (MLB 162 games, NBA 82, NFL 16) plus pre-season, training camp etc. I think they may actually be decreasing their profitability because the quality of play suffers from the grueling schedules, not only sleep depravation but injuries and etc. Also, there could be a factor of over saturation; the game…
As a really close follower of the NBA, I can say they have been starting to show real concern with not wearing out their players, and they have incentive to take it even further. They haven't decreased the overall number of games, but they have been working really hard to minimize the number of back-to-back games, I think every team has had a decrease in back-to-backs each of the last 4 consecutive years. They also l…
Summary (from 4277 words): From a study of 18 players, testosterone levels fell from 88th percentile among males their age to 32nd percentile by midseason. Their grueling travel schedule, and not the exertion of on-court play, was to blame as non-player personnel also experienced similar declines. Studies show five hours of sleep per night over the course of a week lowers testosterone levels by an equivalent of 11 ye…
> Verbosity is an existential threat. Any thoughts on some sort of sliding-scale interface for text density/verbosity like in this concept design? Would that help or hurt the situation? http://futureofinformation.com/ (See “Abstraction slider”, about halfway down)
The solution is writers changing their writing style, and probably not a browser/tool that can display 4 different versions of a text.
Summary (from 4277 words): From a study of 18 players, testosterone levels fell from 88th percentile among males their age to 32nd percentile by midseason. Their grueling travel schedule, and not the exertion of on-court play, was to blame as non-player personnel also experienced similar declines. Studies show five hours of sleep per night over the course of a week lowers testosterone levels by an equivalent of 11 ye…
I’m not sure how a few sentences about testosterone is an adequate recap.
Related to this, one of the most interesting podcast episodes I had listened to was Howard Beck talking to the NBA schedule makers and all the factors they have to account for when making the schedule. Part of the podcast talks about rest and how rest is accounted for when scheduling. Well worth a listen. https://player.fm/series/the-full-48/nba-scheduling-czars-to...
Also remember listening to JJ Redick's podcast episode which featured Chris Paul, and they spoke about players not getting enough sleep. Paul mentioned an example such as a national game on tv being over at 9 or 10 but they might have another road game the next night, they go to airport get on a plane and land at 2am. Might not even get any sleep until 4 or 5am due to all the traveling, the adrenaline, the emotions, the caffeine etc. Now imagine this over 82 games.
I have often wondered if professional sports in an effort to increase profits, increase the number of games in a season (MLB 162 games, NBA 82, NFL 16) plus pre-season, training camp etc. I think they may actually be decreasing their profitability because the quality of play suffers from the grueling schedules, not only sleep depravation but injuries and etc. Also, there could be a factor of over saturation; the game…
11 out of 30 NBA teams had 100% home game attendance last season. 18 teams were above 95%. There's not that much margin for improvement there. http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance/_/year/2019/sort/homePct Edit: I can't find the numbers for courtside attendance, but it's possible that ticket income for the teams at the bottom of that list is either lower or higher than the overall % suggests, depending on how in-demand…
Edit: Agree it's probably TV driving it. But just my perspective as Basketball fan, I would rather see 50 or 60 really great competitive games played by rested healthy and happy players than 80 games by tired players.