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Study links late-night tweeting by NBA players to worse game performance

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    PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-JUN-2017
    Study links late-night tweeting by NBA players to worse game performance
    Players scored fewer points and had lower shooting accuracy after a late-night tweet


    Preliminary data from a new study suggests that NBA players had worse personal statistics in games that followed a late-night tweet between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.

    Players scored on average about 1 point less in games following late-night tweets, and their shooting accuracy dropped 1.7 percentage points compared with their performance in games that did not follow late-night tweeting. After a late-night tweet, players also took fewer shots and had fewer rebounds, steals and blocks.

    "Using late-night tweeting activity as a proxy for being up late, we interpret these data to show that basketball skills are impaired after getting less sleep," said lead investigator Jason J. Jones, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University in New York. "While experimental studies have shown the impact of sleep deprivation on performance, this study uses big data to provide interpretable results on real-world performance of basketball players."

    According to the authors, most of the statistical changes following late-night tweets can be explained by fewer minutes played. Players had an average of 2 minutes less playing time following late-night tweeting.

    "Our findings are relevant beyond just sports science research," said study co-author Lauren Hale, PhD, Professor of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine in the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. "Our results demonstrate a broader phenomenon: to perform at your personal best, you should get a full night of sleep."

    The research team led by Jones and Hale merged two public sources of data for the study, analyzing Twitter account activity from 112 verified NBA players as well as basketball statistics from Yahoo Sports. The data, which included more than 30,000 tweets, were compiled across 7 basketball seasons from 2009 to 2016. To reduce the potential performance effects of changing time zones, the analysis included only games within the same time zone as the player's home.

    "Twitter is currently an untapped resource for late-night behavior data that can be used as a proxy for not sleeping," said Jones. "We hope this will encourage further studies making use of time-stamped online behavior to study the effects of sleep deprivation on real-world performance."

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    The research abstract was published recently in an online supplement of the journal Sleep and will be presented Monday, June 5, in Boston at SLEEP 2017, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS), which is a joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.

    Lauren Hale currently receives partial salary support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NIH R01 HD 073352) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH R01 HL 122460).

    Note to reporters: The presentation at SLEEP 2017 includes data that have been updated since the abstract was submitted for publication.

    Abstract Title: Association Between Late-night Tweeting And Next Day Game Performance Among NBA Basketball Players

    Abstract ID: 0148
    Presentation Date: Monday, June 5
    Oral Presentation: 12:15 p.m. to 12:30 p.m., room 304/306
    Poster Presentation: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., board 227
    Presenter: Lauren Hale, PhD

    For a copy of the abstract or to arrange an interview with the study author or an AASM spokesperson, please contact AASM Communications Coordinator Corinne Lederhouse at 630-737-9700, ext. 9366, or clederhouse@aasmnet.org.

    About the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

    Established in 1975, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) improves sleep health and promotes high quality, patient-centered care through advocacy, education, strategic research, and practice standards. The AASM has a combined membership of 10,000 accredited member sleep centers and individual members, including physicians, scientists and other health care professionals. For more information about sleep and sleep disorders, including a directory of AASM-accredited member sleep centers, visit http://www.sleepeducation.org.
     
  2. raun

    raun Active Member

    Yes sleep is always an important factor in the performance but tweeting made it click bait :)
     
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