Rest and travel
on average
The schedule is a physical object: 1,270,280 air miles between arenas for the league, 426 back-to-backs, and every night one team has slept more than the other. This table counts it all from the dates and the geography: miles in a straight line between the arenas of consecutive games, time zones crossed, back-to-backs, three games in four nights, five in seven, the longest road trip, and the games played with less rest than the opponent ("tired") or more ("rested"). Each team's schedule page shows it game by game.
All 30 teams
sorted by miles · league average 42,343 mi · 14.2 back-to-backs| Team | Miles | Time zones | Back-to-backs | 3 in 4 | 5 in 7 | Longest trip | Tired | Rested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48,692 | 45 | 13 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | |
| 48,271 | 54 | 14 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 22 | |
| 47,888 | 24 | 13 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 23 | |
| 47,727 | 34 | 16 | 27 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 17 | |
| 47,651 | 50 | 14 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 19 | |
| 47,451 | 52 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 20 | |
| 47,310 | 36 | 13 | 22 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 13 | |
| 46,324 | 34 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 20 | |
| 45,818 | 42 | 13 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | |
| 45,658 | 50 | 15 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 21 | |
| 45,439 | 36 | 14 | 24 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 19 | |
| 44,775 | 40 | 16 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 21 | |
| 44,607 | 42 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 19 | |
| 44,284 | 35 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 16 | |
| 44,282 | 47 | 13 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 16 | |
| 43,718 | 40 | 15 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 19 | 17 | |
| 43,327 | 28 | 14 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 16 | |
| 41,492 | 43 | 14 | 22 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 21 | |
| 41,320 | 26 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 22 | |
| 41,283 | 28 | 16 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 19 | |
| 39,351 | 30 | 16 | 23 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 19 | |
| 37,595 | 22 | 16 | 21 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 22 | |
| 36,537 | 26 | 14 | 21 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 19 | |
| 36,521 | 28 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 24 | |
| 35,984 | 34 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 21 | |
| 35,744 | 26 | 14 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 23 | |
| 35,591 | 32 | 15 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 21 | 17 | |
| 35,394 | 38 | 15 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 17 | |
| 35,135 | 26 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 19 | 19 | |
| 35,111 | 24 | 15 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 19 |
Miles are great-circle distances between arenas, so real flights are a little longer; a team is counted as travelling from the previous game's arena, starting the season at home. Rest is the number of full days without a game before tip-off; a back-to-back is zero.