Bit of chat going on the Freo board about 6 day breaks and travel impacting our early season form. I know the 6 day break vs team with 7 or more comes up from time to time and posts like
this one seems to indicate that historically there's not a great significance.
However, I'm interested in a couple of variations on this, probably difficult to work out.
1. What is the 6 day vs 7 day break in the last say 10 years only. The physical demands, according to most commentators, has significantly increased in the last decade or so and, one could hypothesise, that the shorter turn-around might have more impact in recent times than in previous years.
2. And this is really what I want to know, what is the statistical significance (if any) of teams that have the shorter turn-around AND interstate travel the same week against teams that don't travel or have a longer break. Again going on the last 10 or so years in particular.