Home-Court Advantage and the Associations of Travel and Jet Lag with Team Performance in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Josh Leota^1,2,3, Dean J Miller^4,5,6, Mark É Czeisler^7,8, Jesse Cook⁹, Luis Mascaro¹⁰, Tim D Smithies^4,11, Ayden Nelthropp¹⁰, Elise R Facer-Childs¹⁰

¹Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Research Program, School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia. josh.leota@monash.edu.

²Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. josh.leota@monash.edu.

³Department of Research, Algorithms, and Data Science, WHOOP, Inc., Boston, MA, USA. josh.leota@monash.edu.

⁴Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

⁵School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

⁶S.P.O.R.T. Research Cluster, Central Queensland University, Adelaide, Australia.

⁷Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.

⁸Francis Weld Peabody Society, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.

⁹Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of WI - Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

¹⁰Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Research Program, School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia.

¹¹Melius Consulting, North Fremantle, WA, Australia.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Travel-related fatigue and circadian disruption (i.e., jet lag) are well-established factors limiting performance in elite men's sport and are recognized contributors to home advantage. Yet evidence from women's professional leagues remains scarce. AIM: This study examined temporal trends in home-court advantage and assessed how cumulative travel burden and directional jet lag relate…

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