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Originally Posted by Huysmans
According to a Google search, the NHL is the hardest and most competitive sport to go pro in. The odds of a teenage hockey player making the NHL is 1 in 613. So for instance, with a huge group of over 12,000 players, only 20 would make the NHL.
That number becomes 1 in 4,000 making the NHL in regards to US High School players.
Regarding the most skilled and difficult sports to play as discussed, ESPN did a study to find this out. According to the study, they had a panel of experts "made up of sports scientists from the United States Olympic Committee, of academicians who study the science of muscles and movement, of a star two-sport athlete, and of journalists who spend their professional lives watching athletes succeed and fail". Ten categories were chosen and each sport was ranked according to endurance, strength, speed, agility, flexibility, eye-hand coordination, etc.
Their findings concluded that Boxing was the #1 most skilled and difficult, followed by the #1 team sport Hockey (2nd overall). Baseball was #9 overall, Basketball #4 overall.
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Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in any sport period. Aside from a few other ball sports, its the only one where on offense you are not in control of the ball. It's really not even close, multi sport athletes will always say hitting in baseball is much harder than basketball or football. Boxing being #1? A sport notorious for guys going undefeated or having very minimal losses. Where there are countless examples of random people off the street and nobody's beating professionals. Are we kidding? That is the opposite of difficulty, it's one of the easiest sports to break into. Shouldn't even be in the top 10.
I would say hitting in baseball, serving in tennis, and scoring a goal in the NHL are the top 3 actual hardest. I think if every aspect is taken into account of a game, tennis is the hardest sport by a landslide.
The nhl being hard to break into I do believe, the teams have like 10 people total. Joking lol.