Like the nerdy math genius at school who figures out a way to make a few bucks by crunching the numbers for sports betting, this piece from Scientific American warns about putting money down on a team that travels across the country. The results of the three-hour time difference can throw off the athletes’ circadian rhythms and make them less effective.
Though it may seem like just a “small advantage,” Christophe Winter [a neurologist at the Martha Jefferson Sleep Medicine Center in Charlottesville, Va.,] says it could mean the one- or two-game difference between making or not making the playoffs at the end of the regular season.
And that’s how they pay for college.
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