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What is the most attended sports league in the world?

Ever wondered what is the most attended sports league in the world is? How about the domestic sporting event that attracts the highest attendace? Today on the blog, we give you some numbers that might help you win a bet at your local pub this weekend.

This is a great list of stats. It’s interesting to see what really are the most popular leagues by sheer audience numbers, though I am surprised that MLB ranks #1 as soccer/football is known as the world’s most popular sport. It seems that folks really come out for the big soccer games, but not as much during the season?

While this is a great set of stats that is set up in an easy-to-read format, the designer didn’t take a chance on visualizing any of the data. This means that we have to read to get the information, rather than just glancing at it. A bar graph could show us proportionally just how many more audience members the MLB’s 73,451,522 attendance is versus the runner-up Nippon Professional Baseball at just 21,679,596. As it is, we have to imagine, or do some calculations to see that that’s over 50,000,000 fewer attendees, or just 29% of MLB’s turnout.

I’d love to see these numbers visualized to make their impact even stronger. Until then, I can’t properly rank this as an infographic. It gets an A for interesting data, though!

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This is a fun infographic that covers 16 facts you probably didn’t know about the NFL. The facts range from random to very detailed, with lots of money associated to some seemingly small aspects of the game of football. One interesting fact is that a full football game has an average of 11 minutes with players actually playing and 67 minutes of them standing around. Other fun facts from this infographic include:

• A football is not made out of pigskin. It’s made from cowhide
• The Yellow line that appears in a broadcast game costs $5.1million per year
• Antacid sales increase by 20% the Monday following the Super Bowl

All in all, these facts are definitely fun and interesting, creating a great way to kick off this year’s NFL season. The overall design is OK, though the hard angles for some of the added clip art can be a little distracting since they seem oddly placed. Regardless, any football fan will find some interesting information to share at their next tailgating event by checking out this infographic.