NBA's Little Secret....Sleep Deprivation Is Ruining The Game

[sawchuk1971]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27767289/dirty-little-secret-everybody-knows-about

don't know if this topic belongs in a business forum....

its possible to apply this topic of sleep deprivation to NHL players.....and the reason why
some players play poorly on a nightly basis especially they have to play back to back games......

Circadian rhythms, tied to the rising and setting of the sun, dictate daily sleep/wake cycles. If those rhythms are thrown off, every cell in the body is affected, so much so that the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified circadian disruption from shift work -- which affects, among others, emergency medical workers, military personnel, pilots, firefighters and law enforcement -- as a possible human carcinogen.

Zigzag across time zones and it's worse. "There's not a factory on the planet," Royer says, "that would move shift workers the way we move NBA players."

Still, until that moment on the bus in the small hours of the night, Royer had continued to believe that the NBA schedule and the league's approach to travel and sleep could be overhauled. Players could be educated and their sleep monitored. The number of games could be reduced. Travel schedules could be changed.

In the five years since, he has begun to believe that those measures, while helpful, are insufficient. Sleep deprivation, he believes, is more than just a hindrance to NBA players on the court. It likely is injuring them -- and shortening their lives.

FROM HIS STALL in the visitors lockers in Staples Center, Tobias Harris looks around the room. He points at each of his teammates, even the team staffers, one by one, from left to right.

"You ask anybody in the room," Harris says. "The thing I talk about is sleep.

"I think in a couple years," he says, "[sleep deprivation] will be an issue that's talked about, like the NFL with concussions."

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[Centrum Hockey]

Its probably a problem in every sport NHL players probably complain less by default. 3/4 of the nba players complain about half of the city's in the nba for the simple fact its gets cold in the in winter.

 

[sawchuk1971]

so you think nba players complain a lot and NHLers keep their mouths shut?

is that you are talking about?

 

[Centrum Hockey]

so you think nba players complain a lot and NHLers keep their mouths shut?

is that you are talking about?

The nba made an effort to reduce back to backs and its apparently still to much for the players. There is not much more they could do other than eliminate the 30 games against the other conference that each team plays. NHL players don't for the most part, pick and chose what games they skip in the Schedule.3 Ways The NBA Can Fix Its Load Management Issue -- Ranked

 

[StreetHawk]

The nba made an effort to reduce back to backs and its apparently still to much for the players. There is not much more they could do other than eliminate the 30 games against the other conference that each team plays. NHL players don't for the most part, pick and chose what games they skip in the Schedule.3 Ways The NBA Can Fix Its Load Management Issue -- Ranked

Adam Silver has openly talked about reducing the schedule. Not all in one shot but could see a drop of 6 games then in another couple of years a further drop of 6 games to get down to 70.
You will always have back to backs. It’s just a matter of limiting which cities should be back to backs with another.

Calculate the time from when a team leaves the arena until they arrive at their next hotel in the new city. Factoring in commute time to and from airport, flight time, time spent at the airport, etc. What is the maximum time that it should take to get there? 2.5 hours? 3 hours? Any cities which take longer to get to than that you can’t do back to backs between those 2 cities.

 

[sawchuk1971]

so do you think the nhl would adopt a "load management" system?

interesting when I read one of the three ways fix "load management" was to have shorter playoffs..

wish the nhl would look into that though....

 

[LadyStanley]

FWIW, the Sharks have worked with Stanford University's sleep center for years to help with sleep deprivation and jet lag.

The NHL CBA prohibits teams from scheduling anything for at least 8 hours after returning from road trip. (So, if you get in at 4am, you can't have practice until after noon.) Many teams schedule their "off day" after return from a road trip so guys can enjoy a scheduleless day.

 

[HugoSimon]

FWIW, the Sharks have worked with Stanford University's sleep center for years to help with sleep deprivation and jet lag.

The NHL CBA prohibits teams from scheduling anything for at least 8 hours after returning from road trip. (So, if you get in at 4am, you can't have practice until after noon.) Many teams schedule their "off day" after return from a road trip so guys can enjoy a scheduleless day.

Giving people time off might do the exact opposite of what you hope.

A lot of the problem is people partying and playng video games.