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[QUOTE="YKCornelius, post: 5329987, member: 9864"]
FarmFan, you are absolutely correct regarding the red-eye scenario.   I would suggest to everyone posting on this topic, that it is more than just the change in a player's body clock (i.e., do they feel like it is either still morning or still evening to them) that can effect performance.

Another significant component of the "jet lag" effect, which further underscores the goofiness of the WNBA scheduling, is that when a person is on a 5.5 hour flight from East Coast to West Coast (or 4.5 hour from West to East flying in the jet stream) his/her body is breathing air regulated at approximately 6.5K feet of pressure altitude for all but about an hour of the flight.  A body, especially a professional (or collegiate) athlete, needs time to acclimate and adjust in order to optimally perform.

Bottom line: WNBA scheduling is bonkers.  Any team who flies x-country the day before playing is set up for poor performance, if not abject failure.  Adding at least one full day of travel-time should be a hard line in the new CBA.
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