The MostHeart Racing Sports
What sport keeps fans
on the edge of their
seat the most?
Most sports fans will know the feeling of watching your favorite team. Those heart-stopping moments when they come close to winning, and the pure despair when they miss out.
OnlineGambling.ca hooked 40 avid sports fans to heart monitors in order to track their heart rate throughout a game, discovering which sporting moments got people’s pulses pumping.
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NFL REVEALED AS THE MOST
HEART RACING SPORT
Taking first place as the most heart racing sport is the NFL, with the highest heart rate reading at 137 BPM compared to the usual resting heart rate of 60 - 100 BPM.
Coming closely behind is soccer, with the highest BPM reaching a humongous 136, showing that it’s not just NFL fans that get gripped to the game.
In third place is basketball with the highest BPM at 125.
These are the sports stars that
get people the most excited
Not only did the study analyze the impact of sport on people’s pulses, it also looked at the sports stars that were playing during the game. The data revealed that the games that got people’s heart rates pumping featured the likes of NFL legend Tom Brady, basketball icon LeBron James and tennis champ Andy Murray all got people’s hearts going crazy.
Main Players #1 & #2
Tom Brady
Drew Brees
137bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Bruno Fernandes
Harry Kane
136bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
LeBron James
Anthony Davis
125bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Mike Trout
Alex Bregman
124bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Andy Murray
Rafael Nadal
116bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Lewis Hamilton
Max Verstappen
105bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Anthony Watson
Tom Curry
104bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Anthony Joshua
Kubrat Pulev
101bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Joe Burns
Virat Kohli
99bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Arthur Kaliyev
Ryan Suter
99bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Dave Chisnall
Michael Van Gerwen
98bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Matt Kuchar
Rory Sabbatini
97bpm
Main Players #1 & #2
Julian Alaphilippe
Chris Froome
95bpm
Golf fanatics are the angriest fans on social media
We also wanted to see how these sports fans react to their teams on social media. Despite its calm manner of playing, it seems golf fans are the angriest, with 42% of all tweets about the sport being classified as an angry comment. Whereas, cricket and ice hockey fans show the most love for their team, with 38% of their social media posts being filled with love. Basketball fans seem to be the most sad with their teams’ results, with 38% of reactions being unhappy.
Click through the emoji's to find which reaction had the highest percentage on social media for each sport.
| Sport | Love Reaction
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| NFL |
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| Soccer |
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| NBA Basketball |
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| Baseball |
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| Tennis |
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| Formula One |
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| Rugby |
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| Boxing |
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| Cricket |
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| Ice Hockey |
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| Darts |
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| Golf |
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| Cycling |
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| Sport | Angry Reaction
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|---|---|
| NFL |
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| Soccer |
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| NBA Basketball |
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| Baseball |
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| Tennis |
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| Formula One |
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| Rugby |
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| Boxing |
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| Cricket |
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| Ice Hockey |
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| Darts |
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| Golf |
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| Cycling |
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| Sport | Happy Reaction
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|---|---|
| NFL |
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| Soccer |
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| NBA Basketball |
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| Baseball |
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| Tennis |
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| Formula One |
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| Rugby |
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| Boxing |
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| Cricket |
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| Ice Hockey |
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| Darts |
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| Golf |
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| Cycling |
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| Sport | Sad Reaction
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|---|---|
| NFL |
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| Soccer |
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| NBA Basketball |
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| Baseball |
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| Tennis |
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| Formula One |
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| Rugby |
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| Boxing |
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| Cricket |
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| Ice Hockey |
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| Darts |
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| Golf |
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| Cycling |
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| Sport | Wow Reaction
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|---|---|
| NFL |
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| Soccer |
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| NBA Basketball |
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| Baseball |
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| Tennis |
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| Formula One |
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| Rugby |
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| Boxing |
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| Cricket |
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| Ice Hockey |
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| Darts |
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| Golf |
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| Cycling |
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Highest BPM
137bpm
NFL
136bpm
Soccer
125bpm
Basketball
124bpm
Baseball
116bpm
Tennis
105bpm
Formula One
104bpm
Rugby
101bpm
Boxing
99bpm
Cricket
99bpm
Ice Hockey
98bpm
Darts
97bpm
Golf
95bpm
Cycling
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Methodology
We monitored and analyzed the heart rates of 40 people as they watched their favorite sports game to see whose heart rate went up the most compared to the others. We then looked at the players that were in the games to see which sports players got their fans the most excited. Furthermore, we used BuzzSumo to analyze social reactions on Twitter to each sport.
