Travel Costs in the NBA Production Function
This article empirically determines whether travel factors affect National Basketball Association (NBA) teams' production of wins, offense, and defense. Distance traveled has little impact on win production. Teams with fewer days since their last game produce fewer wins, with an especially large effect for visiting teams in the first half of the season. Game frequency costs accrue in the second half of the season, significantly hurting visiting teams' win production. In the second half of seasons, win production increases when teams play in time zones to the east and decreases in time zones to the west of their home time zone.
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2010
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Authors: | Nutting, Andrew W. |
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Journal of Sports Economics. - Vol. 11.2010, 5, p. 533-548
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Subject: | L83 - sports | J24 - Labor Productivity | D24 - Production |
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