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Back-to-Back

A back-to-back refers to games played on consecutive nights, a well-documented situational factor that measurably affects performance - especially for a team playing the second game on the road, which combines travel fatigue with the physical toll of playing without a full rest day.

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What Back-to-Back means

A back-to-back refers to games played on consecutive nights, a well-documented situational factor that measurably affects performance - especially for a team playing the second game on the road, which combines travel fatigue with the physical toll of playing without a full rest day.

Key points

  • A back-to-back refers to games played on consecutive nights, a well-documented situational factor that measurably affects performance - especially for a team playing the second game on the road, which combines travel fatigue with the physical toll of playing without a full rest day.

Example and context

In practice

A back-to-back refers to games played on consecutive nights, a well-documented situational factor that measurably affects performance - especially for a team playing the second game on the road, which combines travel fatigue with the physical toll of playing without a full rest day.

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