If the grueling travel schedule is what really wears them out, I wonder what my daily 3 hour commute is doing to me.
Are you commuting between time zones and going to work until midnight sometimes?
Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players
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#52Every 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…
Consider getting them to wear anti blue light glasses. Just search Blue Light Blocking Glasses on amazon.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally find the beds in the fanciest hotels the hardest to sleep in because everything is just so... fluffy .
I read some anecdotes about pro cycling teams during the Tour de France who would take doors off the hinges and put them under mattresses to firm them up. Privacy wasn't that big a concern since they were likely taking a floor or wing of a hotel for the night.
Huh thats pretty interesting. Might as well pile up sheets on the floor and sleep there if it comes down to that.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Maybe but there's also a lot of ink about the drop in attendance in MLB games since the stopped looking the other way on steroids, maybe there are too many games to be able to be entertaining without drugs. Maybe NBA is on there way there, a third of the teams home games sold out seems like lots of room for improvement to me, I guess it's perspective. Edit: Agree it's probably TV driving it. But just my perspective a…
Oh yes, absolutely. My answer seems dismissive because I mostly follow the NBA, but in fact the relationship between the number of games, ticket prices, and factors affecting attendance is a fascinating topic.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe but there's also a lot of ink about the drop in attendance in MLB games since the stopped looking the other way on steroids, maybe there are too many games to be able to be entertaining without drugs. Maybe NBA is on there way there, a third of the teams home games sold out seems like lots of room for improvement to me, I guess it's perspective. Edit: Agree it's probably TV driving it. But just my perspective a…
Oh yes, absolutely. My answer seems dismissive because I mostly follow the NBA, but in fact the relationship between the number of games, ticket prices, and factors affecting attendance is a fascinating topic.
Oh cool, I am also an NBA fan, I also think they are one of the better player leagues. If any league can work on this it is the NBA.
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#57Seems like MLB (baseball) players have it even worse. 162 games in 6 months and that’s just the regular season. Games average longer and if extra innings can go 5+ hours and well past midnight.
It's also nowhere as physically demanding of a sport as basketball, where you're in constant movement 30+ minutes a game and during practice.
The implication in the article is that the travel schedule/lack of sleep is the central issue, not the intensity of the workout.
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#58Could one team gain a massive advantage by taking the sleep environment seriously and figuring out how to prevent sleep deprivation in players? A sort of hidden opportunity along the lines of the statistical metrics that revolutionized baseball.
That is supposedly one of the keys to the Success of Team Sky in cycling, but cycling also has a long, long history of doping and making up bs reasons for the unlikely rates of success. So I don't know how true that idea is.
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"Verbosity" also encourages empathy. The piece does a good job relaying the lengths several players go through to achieve the sleep they want. It also gives a good overview of what their travel schedule actually is. Let's not pretend that a three sentence summary contains the same amount of information as a long-form article. (And to counter the inevitable follow-up: yes, I know many people think there is too much hu…
Verbosity risks people never reading it at all.
Summaries are fine. Just let's not pretend there's no loss of information.