2025-26 NBA Rest & Travel Splits
The travel board counts the schedule tax; this one counts what it bought. Every team's record and average point differential in a given situation, next to the gap from that same team's season baseline — so a road-heavy team isn't punished twice. Read how the travel data is calculated.
Pick a situation
1,500+ miles since the prior scheduled game
Across all games, every point one team scores is a point another concedes, so the league's baseline margin is exactly 0.0. That makes the figure above the leaguewide effect itself: −2.3 points per game for the team in this situation. Individual teams swing far harder in both directions — that spread is the board below.
Long travel
Ranked by margin vs. each team's own season baseline
| # | Team | Record | Avg margin | Season | Vs. season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5-4 | +0.6 | −6.0 | +6.6 | |
| 2 | 3-2 | +13.0 | +8.2 | +4.8 | |
| 3 | 5-1 | +11.3 | +7.7 | +3.6 | |
| 3 | 5-1 | +7.0 | +3.4 | +3.6 | |
| 5 | 3-5 | −6.0 | −8.4 | +2.4 | |
| 6 | 7-2 | +2.7 | +1.8 | +0.9 | |
| 7 | 5-7 | +0.2 | −0.3 | +0.5 | |
| 8 | 3-3 | +4.7 | +6.3 | −1.6 | |
| 9 | 2-4 | −2.5 | +0.6 | −3.1 | |
| 10 | 6-6 | −2.2 | +1.1 | −3.3 | |
| 11 | 1-8 | −17.8 | −10.0 | −7.8 | |
| 12 | 2-9 | −8.6 | −0.6 | −8.0 | |
| 13 | 1-4 | −19.0 | −0.2 | −18.8 | |
| — | 1-2 | −10.3 | +2.4 | −12.7 | |
| — | 1-3 | −8.8 | −10.0 | +1.2 | |
| — | 1-1 | +21.5 | +4.8 | +16.7 | |
| — | 1-1 | −5.5 | −5.2 | −0.3 | |
| — | 2-1 | +1.7 | +4.1 | −2.4 | |
| — | 0-4 | −16.5 | −5.5 | −11.0 | |
| — | 2-2 | +4.5 | +5.1 | −0.6 | |
| — | 3-1 | +3.5 | +5.2 | −1.7 | |
| — | 0-2 | −19.0 | −8.0 | −11.0 | |
| — | 1-3 | −10.5 | +2.3 | −12.8 | |
| — | 1-1 | −7.5 | −6.2 | −1.3 | |
| — | 0-4 | −7.8 | −4.5 | −3.3 | |
| — | 1-0 | +14.0 | +11.1 | +2.9 | |
| — | 1-2 | +4.0 | +1.5 | +2.5 | |
| — | 3-0 | +11.0 | +8.3 | +2.7 | |
| — | 1-1 | −2.0 | +2.8 | −4.8 | |
| — | 1-2 | −6.0 | −12.0 | +6.0 |
Average margin is team points minus opponent points, over final regular-season games only; ties are impossible in basketball, so every game lands in a win or a loss column. Conditions overlap — a back-to-back can also be a long-travel game. Teams with fewer than five games in a situation are listed but left unranked, since a two-game sample says nothing. These are descriptive splits, not causal estimates: they do not adjust for opponent strength, injuries, or home court.

