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Originally Posted by RonCo
As I remember, one point that has been statistically proven to _not_ affect performance in any way is the overall distance of travel. A New York team visiting LA doesn't appear to play any differently agasint them than they would against a team closer to NY. This would lead me to think that jet lag/sleep/whatever isn't much of a factor.
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But bear in mind the east to west travel is not that bad, and scheduling rules require a day off in most cases when an eastern team travels from the west back to the east.
Road trips are also limited in length to a maximum of about 14 games these days, with most averaging around 10 games or so. In earlier days, road trips 24-28 games long were not uncommon.
One would have to run the numbers to see if there was any correlation between typical length of road trip and the relative success of a team's road record.