Which professional sport requires the least skill?

mrm5480 · Post #21 » by **mrm5480** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 4:36 pm

Lol at anyone saying baseball, hitting a baseball at the professional lever is one of the hardest things to do at a professional level in sports. If you can do it 2 and one half out of 10 times you're average.

IanJames · Post #22 » by **IanJames** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 4:40 pm

7-Day Dray wrote:I'd say hockey. Too many times do people score off lucky shots or ricochets. Football is in a close second.

You've definitely never played hockey before if you're saying this. just being able to get from point A to point B in hockey takes a reasonable amount of skill, but the type of stuff these guy do with passing/puck handling/re-directing shots out of the air is just unreal, hockey UNQUESTIONABLY takes the most skill of any major professional sport.

Basketball takes the second most skill, then baseball, then football.

Jheri Curl · Post #23 » by **Jheri Curl** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 4:41 pm

Storm Surge wrote:Football easily besides QB.

How hard is it to run in a line and catch a ball? How hard is it to run over people and try to tackle someone?

etc.

It's all based on athleticism how good you are in football.

Eh, I wouldn't go that far. You could be a great athlete and still suck as a football player. If your a terrible route runner you aren't gonna have any type of impact. You have to have great hands as well. If you don't have a good comprehension of when the opposing team is going blitz, man to man or zone you can EASILY cost your team a vital possession. It ain't easy to catch a ball when you got a CB that is great at man coverage/understanding the QBs habits etc.

With that being said....it probably is Football :lol:

Bankai · Post #24 » by **Bankai** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 4:45 pm

Probably Soccer and idk... Badminton? (And is Poker a Sport? Cause why do Sports Channels show them alot? lol)

PS. I dont even like Hockey but I do know Hockey is difficult to play, Skates, Goalie as big as the net, use crooked sticks etc etc.

USA · Post #25 » by **USA** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 4:49 pm

Swimming

Jose_Canseco · Post #26 » by **Jose_Canseco** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:02 pm

Bankai wrote:Probably Soccer and idk... Badminton? (And is Poker a Sport? Cause why do Sports Channels show them alot? lol)

PS. I dont even like Hockey but I do know Hockey is difficult to play, Skates, Goalie as big as the net, use crooked sticks etc etc.

Poker is not a sport, but it definitely requires A LOT of skill to be really good.

Sky_Knicks · Post #27 » by **Sky_Knicks** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:04 pm

Football. Its mostly about having a good body to be able to play your position.

gaspar · Post #28 » by **gaspar** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:05 pm

Darts

Sky_Knicks · Post #29 » by **Sky_Knicks** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:07 pm

Jose_Canseco wrote:
Bankai wrote:Probably Soccer and idk... Badminton? (And is Poker a Sport? Cause why do Sports Channels show them alot? lol)

PS. I dont even like Hockey but I do know Hockey is difficult to play, Skates, Goalie as big as the net, use crooked sticks etc etc.

Poker is not a sport, but it definitely requires A LOT of skill to be really good.

Agreed. If poker didn't require a lot of skill, we'd all be millionaires. Instead, its the same people winning these huge tournaments over and over again.

Post #30 » by **Tommy Udo 6** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:10 pm

doctorfunk · Post #31 » by **doctorfunk** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:11 pm

I'd go with athletics like running/jumping/lifting/weights/swimming while it requires technique and skill the complexity of it is nowhere near basketball.

So far basketball is msot complex sport i followed. Amount of skill you need is insane and there are so many elements of the game.

Lozar · Post #32 » by **Lozar** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:15 pm

Sky_Knicks wrote:
Jose_Canseco wrote:
Bankai wrote:Probably Soccer and idk... Badminton? (And is Poker a Sport? Cause why do Sports Channels show them alot? lol)

PS. I dont even like Hockey but I do know Hockey is difficult to play, Skates, Goalie as big as the net, use crooked sticks etc etc.

Poker is not a sport, but it definitely requires A LOT of skill to be really good.

Agreed. If poker didn't require a lot of skill, we'd all be millionaires. Instead, its the same people winning these huge tournaments over and over again.

Well Poker being a sport is debatable when some refer to professional video game playing as an e-sport.

Anyways it is probably the most skill heavy "sport" around since athleticism gives you no advantages in poker. The great players love it when people actually think its all based on luck, then sit down to play at the tables at a casino.

HTown_TMac · Post #33 » by **HTown_TMac** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:15 pm

Every sport requires a lot of skill.. Some are different than others, which is why the are professional sports that not just anyone can join.

raptorforlife88 · Post #34 » by **raptorforlife88** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:24 pm

Anyone who says baseball is insane. There is a ridiculous amount of difficulty that goes into reading pitches and judging speeds in a very short amount of time while trying to hit the pitch. You have read rotation to see if it's off speed or if you're getting a fastball. Pitch recognition is incredibly difficult.

Q and A with Adrian Gonzalez that tells a lot.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.ph ... -gonzalez/

7-Day Dray · Post #35 » by **7-Day Dray** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 5:27 pm

Storm Surge wrote:Football easily besides QB.

How hard is it to run in a line and catch a ball? How hard is it to run over people and try to tackle someone?

etc.

It's all based on athleticism how good you are in football.

THIS

Village Idiot · Post #36 » by **Village Idiot** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 6:01 pm

mrm5480 wrote:Lol at anyone saying baseball, hitting a baseball at the professional lever is one of the hardest things to do at a professional level in sports. If you can do it 2 and one half out of 10 times you're average.

So true. The average rookie in the MLB is in their mid-twenties which proves how far towards skill on the skill- athleticism matix it is.

I think you can simplify this by making a four corner diagram with skill on the x-axis and athleticism on the y-axis.

Baseball would be high on the skill axis and low on the athleticism axis.

Football is for the most part very high on the athleticism axis (if you include body type in athleticism) and low on the skill axis. Offensive and defensive linemen don't really need to be able to do much besides move their massive bodies quickly and in the right direction.

Soccer requires a lot of skill as well although it is merely average on the athleticism axis. Same with hockey.

Basketball is fairly high on both axis imho but not as high as baseball on skill.

panthermark · Post #37 » by **panthermark** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 6:07 pm

Football is my favorite sport.... But I would say that of the 4 major sports, football (outside of QB) is the one sport where some skill can be substitued for freakish athelticsim, strength, instinct and an unpleasant dispostion.....especially on defense or on the line.

Realmckoy265 · Post #38 » by **Realmckoy265** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 6:12 pm

Football. Out of all the sports it's the easiest to pick up if athletic. Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, and Hockey require skills that are not easily learned after a certain age, despite how athletic ...

Saciid11 · Post #39 » by **Saciid11** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 6:16 pm

People saying soccer has the least skills don't know anything about soccer. Soccer/football is the hardest sport to master and the hardest sport to be a pro. Unlike basketball where you can start at the age of 14 or 15 and still end up being pro, soccer kids by the age of 10 are recruited by professional teams in Europe and only 5% if not less those kids recruited at the age of 10 make it to pros.

Sport the that requires least skills are American sports like ... Baseball, Football and to some extent basketball( Center position)

choppermagic · Post #40 » by **choppermagic** » Tue Aug 9, 2011 6:20 pm

football (American) for the reasons outlined by others. Athleticism can carry you pretty far in a football career.

Baseball may not require a lot of different skills because of the specialty nature of the positions, but you need to be amazing at at least one of them (ex - throwing a 98mph fastball) in order to make it. with all the players around the world trying to get in, by the time you get to the majors, you are pretty much a god with your best skill(s).

If you expand the definition of "professional sports", things like sprinting would take the cake i think.