Sports Densities (78 views)

[eric]

Sports comparisons came up in shout so I thought it would be fun to calculate densities (players per square foot) across sports. For ease of comparison I will report inverse densities (square feet per player) so the larger the number, the less dense the sport is.

12052 - baseball (MLB average, not including foul territory, 9 into source)
3528 - soccer (note that FIFA has no exact regulation on pitch size, i used 22 into 115 by 75 yards from their midpoints)
2618 - American football (including endzones, 22 into 160 by 360 feet)
1361 - hockey (using NHL, 12 into 85 by 200 less (4 - pi) * 28^2 feet)
470 - basketball (using NBA, 10 into 94 by 50 feet)

[BKay Jewelers]

I imagine this meant that you added up the height and weight of each player in the sport and assumed an average width for each player and then took the total ground that would cover.

I see now you mean density on the field of play.

[eric]

Aug 8, 2017 13:29:15 GMT -6 BKay Jewelers said:

I imagine this meant that you added up the height and weight of each player in the sport and assumed an average width for each player and then took the total ground that would cover.

I see now you mean density on the field of play.

correct

i did use e=mc^2 to calculate the resting energy of major athletes when i was in third grade

right before my teacher had me give a presentation on it there was a fight or something and some kid was crying the whole time

it was really awkward

[BKay Jewelers]

Aug 8, 2017 14:05:57 GMT -6 eric said:

Aug 8, 2017 13:29:15 GMT -6 BKay Jewelers said:

I imagine this meant that you added up the height and weight of each player in the sport and assumed an average width for each player and then took the total ground that would cover.

I see now you mean density on the field of play.

correct

i did use e=mc^2 to calculate the resting energy of major athletes when i was in third grade

right before my teacher had me give a presentation on it there was a fight or something and some kid was crying the whole time

it was really awkward

I dressed up as Einstein and explained e=mc2 in my third grade class too.

Sad!

[MJ]