Which professional sport requires the least skill?

[Dr Positivity]

Football outside of QBs, easily

For most skill, it's golf then hockey IMO

[Oakville_Raptor]

Hockey's gotta be one of the toughest if not the toughest.

agreed...lol @ the clowns in this thread who think otherwise

[JebronLames23]

still bowling.

If this is included in our "choices", then I agree.

I'm really good at bowling, and I don't even practice. If I practiced I could probably increase my average 20-30 pins. Anyone can get good at bowling.

[Hendrix]

I think it would be a sport that the least amount of the population plays. Something like darts or curling or something.

[GreenWithEnvy]

Baseball and Football (besides pitcher and QB) are embarrassingly unskilled sports. It is more hand-eye coordination than skill. Think about how many times basketball players use hand-eye coordination versus a football or baseball player. A simple bounce pass, chest pass, outlet pass, flare pass, post entry pass, jumping for a rebound, not to mention footwork offensively and defensively and shotblocking and stealing. You probably use hand-eye coordination 5 times in basketball for every 1 time in football or baseball. So I wouldn't really use the hand-eye coordination argument if you're trying to protect football or baseball.

but if i had to order them from most skilled to least skilled i'd probably go with

1)Hockey
2) Basketball
3) MMA
4) Baseball
5) Football

The biggest indicator to me is that there are tons of NBA players (Lebron, Nate Robinson, Allen Iverson, Glen Davis, etc) that were ALL-State High School football players being recruited by D1 colleges to play (or they did play) but how many football or baseball players were good enough to be recruited by D1 basketball colleges (Antonio Gates?)
4)

[Sh0t]

Best football versus basketball example:

CHARLIE WARD

[turtlesnjoi]

Basketball obviously. If I was born 7 feet tall and black I'd be in the NBA right now with my skills.

[c rasheed]

football. u can literally be a really fat guy and just charge a guy and youll make millions of dollars a year. hardly any skill involved. take any sumo wrestler whose never played football, give him a week of football camp and hell be a fantastic player.

Sorry, this is the most daft thing I've ever read on this forum. It really shows you have no idea what you are talking about.

NFL players are the best athletes in the world, bar none. Even the 320 Lb NFL lineman can do 5.0 second 40 yard dashes. lol sumo.

Interesting fact for you--offensive linemen, the "fat guys" most people who are ignorant of the game would think are just mindlessly throwing their bodies around, are actually highly intelligent. The smartest guys on the field according IQ tests. They're smart because the they position is very cerebral.

[CarMalone]

I'm surprised nobody has posted this link yet.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

It may be subjective and up for debate but it gives an insight on how the different sports are judged.

Degree of Difficulty: Sport Rankings
SPORT END STR PWR SPD AGI FLX NER DUR HAN ANA TOTAL RANK
Boxing 8.63 8.13 8.63 6.38 6.25 4.38 8.88 8.50 7.00 5.63 72.375 1
Ice Hockey 7.25 7.13 7.88 7.75 7.63 4.88 6.00 8.25 7.50 7.50 71.750 2
Football 5.38 8.63 8.13 7.13 6.38 4.38 7.25 8.50 5.50 7.13 68.375 3
Basketball 7.38 6.25 6.50 7.25 8.13 5.63 4.13 7.75 7.50 7.38 67.875 4

[EdMar_Davis]

I think baseball(lol) was made just so Americans can be good at a sport(if you wanna call it a sport) that no one would even bother to play

Then what about the fact that the Asians are ridiculously in love with it (Japan won the WBC) or the Central/South Americans. The whole damn MLB is Americans (North Americans, which is what I'm guessing you're shooting for) and the other half those two.
Only Europe stays away from baseball besides the UK.

I was joking about the american part, but it still stands as the least skilled sport. Not to mention it's extremely hard to cheer for a team when you got the Yanks and Sox out spending the entire league. oh and the steroids don;t help, douche bags like A Rod being celebrated as kings makes things even worse. smh

[mepatrick]

this thread is going nowhere

[johnwall]

Pretty much all the major NA sports outside of basketball which along with football(soccer) require the most. Lol at baseball

Someone said something to this effect earlier, but I'll repeat it and add a slight spin.

If you can get a hit 4 out of 10 at bats in baseball, you're a baseball God. Ponder that just for a second...

maybe your missing the part where there are nine other guys trying to stop u from getting on base, those guys can hit the ball 10 out of 10 times, getting on base is the hard point, and that really doesnt take much skill either

[johnwall]

still bowling.

u can continue to post this but bowling isnt a sport, neither is darts, poker, nascar, swimming, running, or even boxing

[MAQ]

Pretty much all the major NA sports outside of basketball which along with football(soccer) require the most. Lol at baseball

Someone said something to this effect earlier, but I'll repeat it and add a slight spin.

If you can get a hit 4 out of 10 at bats in baseball, you're a baseball God. Ponder that just for a second...

maybe your missing the part where there are nine other guys trying to stop u from getting on base, those guys can hit the ball 10 out of 10 times, getting on base is the hard point, and that really doesnt take much skill either

Getting a hit means reaching base successfully. Maybe you're missing the part where hitting it where they ain't is still part of the skill.

[johnwall]

hitting the ball where a guy isnt is purely luck, that is not skill

[MAQ]

hitting the ball where a guy isnt is purely luck, that is not skill

And you've clearly never played baseball before...

Not to say that there isn't some luck involved...Obviously there is some luck involved with just about everything...But hitters are skilled enough to hit balls in certain directions.

[Tetlak]

hitting the ball where a guy isnt is purely luck, that is not skill

Then you have obviously never played baseball.

Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports.

[Wone]

hitting the ball where a guy isnt is purely luck, that is not skill

[johnwall]

hitting the ball where a guy isnt is purely luck, that is not skill

Then you have obviously never played baseball.

Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports.

i played baseball, all the way through college, sure your can attempt to guide the ball where youd like it to go but you cant simulate the outfielders movement, its strictly luck, the most skilled part of baseball is hand eye coodination

[AdamTheGreek]

Definitely baseball for me.