How Far Do Pro Athletes Run During Games? - Heads Up by Scout Life (2024)

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How many miles do NFL players run in a game? ›

The average NFL player runs 1.25 miles per game, and while this doesn't seem like a lot of mileage, the intense bursts of speed followed by periods of rest make for a great workout. The name for this type of workout is interval training and it's something even a casual runner can benefit from.

On average, a basketball player runs about 2.55 miles per game. With five players allowed on the court at a time, that adds up to 12.75 miles per team during 48 minutes of regulation play. If we add fresh legs from the bench like a relay team for a little more pep, let's just push that up to at least a half marathon.

Baseball: .046 miles

This is a rather generous estimate that translates into approximately 242 feet per game, taken from the statistics of the current Major League Baseball batting leader Troy Tulowitzki from the Colorado Rockies. The distance between each base is 90 feet.

- Last season, 93 NBA players — or more than 20% of the league — ran at least 130 miles (or the equivalent of five marathons) over the course of the campaign.

According to various research outlets, the average miles run in a soccer game by a professional player is around 7 miles (just over 11km). Depending on the role a player has in the team, they can record figures above or below that, but it's common to see pros hit or surpass the 7 miles per game mark.

As far as the 2022-23 NBA season is concerned, the player who traveled the most miles on the basketball court was Brooklyn Nets forward Mikal Bridges, who ran a total distance of 1,182,569 feet or 224 miles in a total of 2,963 minutes played.

Believe it or not, of all team sports, hockey players run more than the players of any other team sport. A hockey game lasts 70 minutes and a football game lasts 90 minutes.

Boxing is ranked as the most physically demanding sport by the American College of Sports and Fitness, considering factors such as endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, and flexibility. ESPN also found boxing to be the most physically demanding sports out of 60 analyzed.

If a player enters the game as a pinch-runner and scores, he is also credited with a run. The league leaders in runs scored are generally adept at reaching safely and running the bases.

R – Runs: The total number of runs the player has scored as a baserunner (safely reaching home plate). H – Hits: The total number of times a player hits the ball and reaches a base without fielder error or sacrifice.

Does a home run count as a run? ›

The batter now hits a home run. It counts as a hit, it counts as a home run, but the batter's run scored is NOT earned. Great question. Yes, no runs scored by batters who reached base after two are out in an inning extended by an error are earned.

The football players RUN five miles every day. Hope it helps.

A standard American football field, including both the playing field and the two end zones, is approximately 100 yards long. This is equivalent to 300 feet or 0.0568 miles (about 1/18th of a mile).