[https://www.reviews.org/tv-service/live-sports-statistics/](https://www.reviews.org/tv-service/live-sports-statistics/) La liste est la suivante : 1 – Football 2 – Basketball 3 – Baseball 4 – Football universitaire 5 – Basketball universitaire 6 – NASCAR 7 – Hockey 8 – Formule 1 et UFC 10 – MMA
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Ok_Panda1565
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Good taste is not widely distributed.
Amazed baseball is still that high
How are football/college football different? Basketball/college basketball. UFC and MMA?
Edit to add. Thanks everyone for your responses. Had a lot of great conversations out of this.
NASCAR? 😑
Behind NASCAR?
That’s a tragic left turn.
Hmmm makes sense. Could see NHL jumping NASCAR in a few years as more and more homegrown talent emerges from a more diverse parts of the country.
Maybe the whole thing shifts upwards as the golden oldies that watch/sleep through baseball games start dying off.
These sports are cheaper to play at a lower level, less equipment needed
But you need ice for a real sport
So Football > Basketball > Baseball > Nascar > Hockey.
And also probably below Soccer
I’m sure a team in Atlanta will make hockey insanely popular
7th sounded low (though not unexpectedly), but looking at the list that’s actually better than I would have thought. In my head I didn’t count College Basketball and Football as seperate from pro, and I would have thought that soccer was ahead of hockey now (though I suppose if they split MLS and European leagues into different groups they could total more than hockey still). I wouldn’t expect the NHL to beat out any of that top 6 but I am pretty surprised there’s not at least 1 or 2 more ahead.
Surprised they don’t include European soccer leagues. Half the people I know follow it.
I don’t understand how basketball is as popular as it is. Absolute snooze fest to watch.
I’m happy F1 mode the list!
Not all grade schools/high schools have hockey teams, and its very expensive to play, especially if your body’s not done growing. There is just total expsoure to baseball/football/basketball growing up in the US but once you find hockey, holy tits its the best. Nascar has always been huge amongst car people and alot watch for crashes as well.
Mma is that low? Interesting
Where does it rank in Canada?
Because we cant watch a fuckin game on youtube like normal ppl
College football is football. College basketball is basketball. That means hockey is the 5th most popular sport
Imagining F1 and UFC combined into one sport. I would watch the shit out of that
Hockey is the best sport with the worst marketing I feel.
1. Don’t care
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t care
4. Don’t care
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7. Nice
8. Don’t care
It’s blacked out everywhere. How can it get more popular if nobody can watch it? The Avalanche have one of the best rosters in their history and nobody’s able to see them winning. Absolute joke ownership and league.
Wait, I just actually looked at the list, and there are some discrepancies…..
The list is based on percentage of people who watch live sports. Streaming and on TV.
Hockey, specifically NHL hockey is listed at 20%, and that is 7th on the list.
NASCAR and F1 are split up, with makes sense to me because they are pretty different from each other. No problem here.
But then MMA is listed as UFC with 17% and Bellator (I don’t know what this is) at 13%. If these are very similar leagues, then you could argue that they could be combined to 30%, which puts MMA at the same level as NCAA football. (this actually surprised me)
WWE and AEW bigtime wrestling are listed separately at 11% and 9%, but I would argue that they are the same product. That puts them even with NHL hockey’s 20%.
The real confusing part is when it lists the WNBA at 12%, which is the 11th spot, but then also lists the WNBA in the 17th spot with 9%. The wording is exactly the same for each listing. Should they be combined? Which would put them 1% higher than NHL hockey. Or is this double counting streaming and live TV numbers? What the shit is going on here?
This is why I love and hate statistics, you can get some insight, but how the numbers were gathered and presented is just as important as the conclusions. This was all just for the US anyways, which puts hockey at the biggest disadvantage of any of the other sports listed IMO. Anyways,
I am such a nerd, chirp away friends, I deserve it.
It’s wild to me as a »Quebecois » that American College Sports can be *that* big.
When I left the University of Sherbrooke I basically stopped following their football team lmao
The fact that it can be *bigger* than another actually pro sports league is insane to me
Man, they’re all missing out so badly!
It disappoints me that the NHL is working so hard to increase the popularity of the sport in the US while turning their back on the heartland of hockey. I suppose this is an improvement because at one point hockey was below high school sports so maybe NHL just has to keep pushing
This is kind of fucked 😑
in good countries its #1
Top 3 not surprising.
Personally, I watch hockey today because it’s fun and big part of Canadian culture.
But I grew up playing basketball and watching basketball and hockey. Basketball was an affordable sport and also just a lot of fun.
Broadly I think the accessibility and diversity of the top 3 are some of the reasons why they’re popular.
Poor people cannot play hockey, which is why it will never, ever, be number 1.
hockey will make a huge push over the next 10 years