Two studies look at how fatigue that builds over a season and the sleepiness of players effect performance.
He added that teams may be able to gain a competitive edge by focusing on fatigue management.
“A team that recognizes this trend and takes steps to slow or reverse it — by enacting fatigue-mitigating strategies, especially in the middle and late season, for example — can gain a large competitive advantage over their opponent,” he said. “This may have already occurred, as the San Francisco Giants — an outlier in the study in that their plate discipline improved during the 2012 season — went on to win the World Series.”
Thanks to Joel Jacobsen for the link.
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