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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…
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I’ve always wondered if the home team advantage is mostly caused by sleep deprivation. I know baseball stadiums have idiosyncrasies (home run distance varies), but I’m not aware if anything similar for basketball. The home team advantage is also pretty striking for win rates in the NBA: 58% of games are were won by the home team in the 2017-2018 season[0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_advantage
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/presents18969358/tinde...
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…
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)
> To fight back, he says he hopes to grab a few hours of sleep on the plane to Houston. He hopes the hotel bed there is OK, though that's never a guarantee. From what I have seen, most pro teams stay at some of the nicest hotels in said visiting city. With that said, I'm surprised to see the "He hopes the hotel bed there is OK, though that's never a guarantee." But maybe that's also just coming from my own experience…
Consider that a king size bed is only 6'8" long, while the average player's height is ~6'7"
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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.
It would be interesting if one of the major sports leagues would experiment with a reduced schedule to test that theory ? Never happen I know.
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Yeah but try hitting a 100 mph fastball when you're feeling groggy
I'd honestly probably do better than I would normally since I wouldn't have the energy to overthink it lol.
> One study found that MLB players' strike-zone judgment was worse in September than in April in 24 of 30 teams. When averaged across all teams, strike-zone judgment was significantly worse in September compared with April. The statistical model demonstrated strong predictive value through the season.
[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130531105506.h...
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My thought too. Just don't bother practicing as much, instead sleep more and throw some games strategically.
Teams kind of do this already. The Spurs were especially famous for “DNP - Old” (DNP = Did not play) at the end of the Duncan/Manu/Parker era. They would leave those guys at home for short road trips and/or back to backs. This all hit a tipping point when ABC was scheduled to air the Heat v Spurs and the Spurs left all their stars in San Antonio. IIRC the Spurs won or came close to doing so anyway. The league has the…