The common preconception about baseball is that it’s a slow game. It takes a long time to finish, and during those three or four interminable hours very little exciting stuff happens. People say this off and on about almost any sport. Soccer, hockey — I even remember some British dude writing that basketball was boring. But baseball probably gets it worst of all. By comparison, football is the action-packed sport, right? The one where something’s always happening, where scoring isn’t so rare, when large men hit each other literally every thirty seconds. But what if that’s not actually true? What if baseball has more action? That’s the finding of this study by SportsScape , which looked at two games — an anecdotal sample size, to be sure — and determined that baseball had almost twice as much action for every hour of real time than did football. True story: Baseball: By the end, at 5:04 pm (2h26m in real time), the game yielded just 21m11s of game play. That’s approximately 8m50s of actual game for every hour that passes in real time. Football: At the end of the game’s 3 hr. 14 min. running time, only 15m27s of football was played. …approximately 4m54s of actual game is played for every hour in real time. I’d be interested in a study that took a whole season’s worth of games, just for scientific rigor — after all, my full name is Eamonn Scientific Rigor Brennan — but still, this is pretty interesting, unexpected stuff. (HT: SB Nation )

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Football Actually More Sluggish Than Baseball, According To Math