[akiselev]

Basketball teams play 82 games over about 180 days, so it's a game roughly every 2.5 days not including practice - compared to 38 games over 10 months for the English Premier League which is a game every 7-8 days. I don't know how often racing teams compete but I'm assuming it isn't as frequent. Even a few days makes a large difference for rest and recovery.

Playing at 100% every game would very quickly lead to burnout and injuries, or at least that's the common wisdom. Not sure if it's accurate [1]

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/232596711772979...