I’ve heard teams saying the players were fatigued and couldn’t play the second game as well, but didn’t they have a two or 3 day break between the games? Why isn’t that enough time to recover? I’d think one night would be enough to sleep, eat, and re-energize.
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Depends on the sport. Baseball teams will sometimes play two games in the same day. Meanwhile NFL teams only play once a week, and consider Sunday-Thursday a hardship. Notably, American Football is high-contact, so recuperation means healing, not just energy.
Depending on the level of competition, games also mean travel. A two-day break isn’t as restful if one of those days is a plane flight from New York to Texas.
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