Sleep and circadian disruption associated with eastward travel has significant adverse effects on National Basketball Association player performances among home teams, according to published results.
To determine the impact of travel-related jet lag on NBA player performances, researchers analyzed 11,481 regular season NBA games from 2011 to the 2021. The researchers used multi-level mixed models to account for jet lag direction (eastward vs. westward), predicted circadian resynchronization rate, teams, opponents, game times, as well as home and away teams.
Researchers found jet lag had the