It seems to me that if you want to know what the impact of Vegas Flu is, look at the difference between their home and away records. The impact must, by necessity, be less than the difference between those two rates of success. They're 11-8-1 on the road. They're above .500. In other words, even if you took the view that their home results are entirely because the other team is always hung over, in every case, they're still a pretty successful team. And obviously, their home record isn't 100% attributable to the other team being hung over - almost everyone's record is better at home.
I definitely think the chip-on-shoulder thing has something to do with it. You're going to go out and play hard for your teammate who got thrown out with the trash by the guys across from you, because when you play your former team next week, you know he's going to do the same for you. Heck of a motivator, that.
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