2026 Season · Los Angeles

Sparks
Rest Report

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2
Rested Edge
2
Even Match
0
Fatigued

of 4 remaining games

  • Today
  • Thu
    17
    Sep
    AWAY@

    Dallas Wings

    7:00 PM CT
    Roughly even
    LAS · Los Angeles(15-25)
    17d
    Rest
    ✈✈✈
    Travel
    4.8h flight
    +2h
    TZ shift
    east
    Seattle, WA Arlington, TXR 100
    DAL · Dallas Wings(24-16)
    Home
    17d
    Rest
    Travel
    no flight
    TZ shift
    same zone
    No travelR 100
  • Sun
    20
    Sep
    HOMEvs

    Portland Fire

    4:00 PM PT
    LAS +60 fresher
    LAS · Los Angeles(15-25)
    Home
    2d
    Rest
    ✈✈
    Travel
    3.9h flight
    -2h
    TZ shift
    west
    Arlington, TX Los Angeles, CAR 100
    PDX · Portland Fire(16-24)
    1d
    Rest
    ✈✈
    Travel
    2.2h flight
    TZ shift
    same zone
    San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CAR 40
  • Tue
    22
    Sep
    AWAY@

    Las Vegas Aces

    7:00 PM PT
    Roughly even
    LAS · Los Angeles(15-25)
    1d
    Rest
    ✈✈
    Travel
    2h flight
    TZ shift
    same zone
    Los Angeles, CA Las Vegas, NVR 80
    LVA · Las Vegas Aces(27-13)
    Home
    1d
    Rest
    Travel
    no flight
    TZ shift
    same zone
    No travelR 85
  • Thu
    24
    Sep
    HOMEvs

    Golden State Valkyries

    7:00 PM PT
    LAS +7 fresher
    LAS · Los Angeles(15-25)
    Home
    1d
    Rest
    ✈✈
    Travel
    2h flight
    TZ shift
    same zone
    Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CAR 61
    GSV · Golden State Valkyries(29-11)
    1d
    Rest
    ✈✈
    Travel
    3.2h flight
    TZ shift
    same zone
    Portland, OR Los Angeles, CAR 54
How we score rest

We track a dynamic Fatigue & Recovery Index — a Rest Status score from 0 to 100 that changes day by day as a team plays, travels, and rests.

  • Teams start the season fully rested at R = 100.
  • Every game drains 35 points. A back-to-back needs no special penalty — with no rest day in between, a team simply tips off the second night still carrying that full drain.
  • Rest days restore points, but not evenly: soreness peaks the day after a game, so the first day back gives only +20, while the second and third rebound harder — +40 at home, +30 on the road. Capped at 100, so about three full days off returns a team to fully recovered and extra rest gives no further edge.
  • Location follows real logistics: a team stays home until the day before a road game and flies home right after one, so the days before a trip count as home recovery, not hotel nights.
  • The flight into a road game costs a travel-day toll that grows with flight hours and time-zone change — and eastward trips, harder to adjust to, cost more than westward. That's the travel & jet-lag part of the edge.
  • Wear accumulates: several short-rest or long-travel games in a row push a team lower than any single game would on its own.

The R score at tip-off is shown for each team; the game stamp reflects the delta between the two scores

Schedule via Basketball-Reference · Travel modeled from arena coordinates
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