时差N小时:如何预测棒球比赛成绩(上) Tips For Predicting Baseball Scores

If you're a true sports fan, you've probably lost sleepwondering if jet lag affects the performance of yourfavorite teams.

如果你是铁杆体育迷，你可能会通宵熬夜，想要知道时差是否会影响你所喜爱的球队的表现。

You're not the only one.

许多人和你一样。

To answer this important question,scientists analyzed three years of major league baseball games to see if they could find a linkbetween jet lag, and home field advantage.

为了回答这个重要的问题，科学家们分析了职业棒球大联盟三年的比赛，看看能否找出时差和主场优势之间的联系。

They discovered that baseball teams playing at home won over half the time. However, if thevisiting team had just traveled eastward, say, from L.A. to New York, the home team scoredmore runs.

他们发现主场比赛的棒球队赢的次数超过半数。然而，如果客队是刚刚去过东部，比如说从洛杉矶去纽约，主队会多赢几轮。

If the visiting team had just traveled west, this didn't affect the point spread.

如果客队去过西部，则不会影响比分。

These findings support other studies that show that traveling east is harder on your body thantraveling west.

这些发现支持了其他一些研究，即向东旅行对身体的的负担要比向西重。