Is One Sport Better Than Another?

[kompressaur]

Is it fair and reasonable to say that one sport is more difficult than another? Sure football may be more athletic than golf, but does the ladder require more mental strength? Is it possible to rank the difficulty of sports?

thanks

[ONEDUNME]

Yes.

[Snodser]

Originally Posted by ONEDUNME

Yes.

I agree.

[Hippy Dave]

Originally Posted by Snodser

I agree.

You do know it's not $50 for the last post in every thread don't you?

[Snodser]

Originally Posted by Hippy Dave

You do know it's not $50 for the last post in every thread don't you?

[ONEDUNME]

I just answered the question that was asked.

[Mike TV]

Some comparisons may be possible, but I don't seen any particular reason to suppose that relative difficulty, for sports, is what mathematicians would call a total order: There may be questions of the form "Is A more difficult than B?" that simply do not have answers. The case of golf and football may well be such a case: Golfers and football players (and footballers, for that matter) use very different sets of skills. Perhaps one could ask whether it is more difficult to perfect the one set of skills than the other, but even that question might not have an answer. What is involved in perfecting the relevant sets of skills might, again, be very different.

[ONEDUNME]

Golfers and football players (and footballers, for that matter)

What?

[Hippy Dave]

What about golf players?

[traeth]

i think cricketers make better golfers than snooker players , so i believe that cricket is better than snooker

[ONEDUNME]

To clarify....

Do you mean....


Cricketers make better golfers than snooker players do.


or


Cricketers make better golfers than they do snooker players.

[traeth]

i meant the first one but i also agree with the second one so is that a paradox , oh wrong thread ,
i was going to use a smilie but we've got some new ones and thats confused me