Would you like to guess which sport regularly has the most posts each year? Even after getting some of the numbers, I'm still not sure. On the face of it, it's Baseball. But I think that Tennis, Cricket, Rugby U and Cycling have a shout.
In the case of Cricket, there are myriad threads, as to be expected in a game which has three formats, domestic and international matches, and is arranged both in competitions/tournaments and one-off series.
Cycling and Tennis are similar in that there are Tour events covered in a main thread, and then a few major events over the year that warrant their own thread. These two were also accused of thread doping last year, each running a rolling thread over 2014, 2015 and 2016. They've both started annual threads again this year and the big threads have had their totals divided by three to produce an Annual Equivalent Rate (the same has been done with International Cricket). However the 2014-2016 Tennis thread is the longest one in this forum.
Rugby U seems in the past to have followed that mould, with separate threads for Lions, World Cups and Six Nations scattered in the depths of these pages. But when it was all brought under one roof in 2015 we saw the single biggest annual thread in the Sports forum by some distance.
So perhaps further work needs to be done to try to aggregate some sports. But if you want some raw data to look at (and at some point perhaps I'll go further down), here are those with annual rates of 250 or above.
In the case of Cricket, there are myriad threads, as to be expected in a game which has three formats, domestic and international matches, and is arranged both in competitions/tournaments and one-off series.
Cycling and Tennis are similar in that there are Tour events covered in a main thread, and then a few major events over the year that warrant their own thread. These two were also accused of thread doping last year, each running a rolling thread over 2014, 2015 and 2016. They've both started annual threads again this year and the big threads have had their totals divided by three to produce an Annual Equivalent Rate (the same has been done with International Cricket). However the 2014-2016 Tennis thread is the longest one in this forum.
Rugby U seems in the past to have followed that mould, with separate threads for Lions, World Cups and Six Nations scattered in the depths of these pages. But when it was all brought under one roof in 2015 we saw the single biggest annual thread in the Sports forum by some distance.
So perhaps further work needs to be done to try to aggregate some sports. But if you want some raw data to look at (and at some point perhaps I'll go further down), here are those with annual rates of 250 or above.
| Sport | Year | AER |
| Rugby U (includes RUWC) | 2015 | 2098 |
| Olympics/Paralympics | 2012 | 1336 |
| Baseball | 2016 | 1333 |
| Olympics/Paralympics | 2016 | 1262 |
| Baseball | 2011 | 1252 |
| Baseball | 2012 | 1157 |
| College Football | 2011 | 1143 |
| Baseball | 2013 | 1126 |
| Rugby U | 2016 | 1011 |
| Cricket (Ashes) | 2009 | 982 |
| Tennis (main) | 2014-2016 | 972 |
| Pro cycling (all, inc GTs) | 2013 | 893 |
| Baseball | 2010 | 868 |
| Pro cycling (Tour de France) | 2015 | 806 |
| Cricket (World Cup) | 2011 | 797 |
| Ice hockey | 2010-2012 | 773 |
| NFL | 2012 | 767 |
| NFL | 2011 | 748 |
| NFL | 2015 | 726 |
| NFL | 2013 | 721 |
| NFL | 2010 | 699 |
| Tennis (British) | 2013 | 688 |
| Rugby U | 2013 | 687 |
| Rugby U | 2012 | 684 |
| NFL | 2008 | 631 |
| NFL | 2014 | 621 |
| Cricket (Ashes) | 2010-2011 | 609 |
| Pro cycling (Tour de France) | 2017 | 606 |
| Baseball | 2014 | 595 |
| Pro cycling (Tour de France) | 2014 | 588 |
| Tennis (main) | 2017 | 588 |
| Pro cycling (Tour de France) | 2016 | 580 |
| Ice hockey | 2012-13 | 578 |
| Olympics/Paralympics | 2008 | 567 |
| Pro Cycling (main) | 2014-2016 | 562 |
| Baseball | 2008 | 558 |
| Cricket (Ashes) | 2015 | 558 |
| Cricket (World Cup) | 2015 | 557 |
| Rugby League | 2016 | 556 |
| Pro Cycling (main) | 2017 | 551 |
| NFL | 2009 | 536 |
| Tennis (Wimbledon) | 2013 | 516 |
| Cricket (County) | 2010 | 510 |
| Cricket (Ashes) | 2013 | 496 |
| Rugby U | 2017 | 496 |
| Rugby U (World Cup) | 2011 | 493 |
| Basketball | 2011-12 | 467 |
| Tennis (Wimbledon) | 2012 | 456 |
| Winter Olympics | 2014 | 455 |
| Cricket (Eng v SA) | 2008 | 452 |
| Baseball | 2009 | 439 |
| Ice hockey | 2013-2015 | 428 |
| Basketball | 2012-13 | 427 |
| Cricket (County) | 2016 | 425 |
| Rugby U | 2014 | 421 |
| Tennis (Aus Open) | 2014 | 419 |
| NFL | 2016 | 418 |
| Tennis (Wimbledon) | 2014 | 396 |
| Aussie Rules | 2009 | 395 |
| Baseball | 2017 | 394 |
| Tennis (Wimbledon) | 2017 | 391 |
| Tennis (Wimbledon) | 2015 | 387 |
| Speedway | 2014 | 369 |
| Tennis (French Open) | 2014 | 359 |
| Cricket (Ashes) | 2013-14 | 358 |
| Cricket (International) | 2016- | 356 |
| Pro cycling (Tour de France) | 2009 | 353 |
| College Football | 2012 | 353 |
| Rugby U (Six Nations) | 2009 | 351 |
| Ice hockey | 2015-16 | 345 |
| Cricket (Eng v PK) | 2010 | 335 |
| Cricket (Eng v SA) | 2017 | 335 |
| Tennis (Aus Open) | 2016 | 333 |
| Winter Olympics | 2010 | 332 |
| Tennis (Aus Open) | 2013 | 316 |
| Tennis (Aus Open) | 2015 | 315 |
| Cricket (WI v Eng) | 2009 | 308 |
| College Football | 2008-09 | 307 |
| Cycling (Giro d'Italia) | 2017 | 303 |
| Cricket (Eng v India) | 2011 | 300 |
| Cycling (Giro d'Italia) | 2014 | 299 |
| Aussie Rules | 2008 | 296 |
| Tennis (French Open) | 2015 | 294 |
| College Football | 2009-10 | 293 |
| Rugby League | 2015 | 283 |
| Tennis (Wimbledon) | 2016 | 282 |
| Ice hockey | 2007-08 | 281 |
| Tennis (Davis/Fed) | 2015 | 279 |
| Rugby U (Lions) | 2009 | 277 |
| Pro cycling (Tour de France) | 2008 | 275 |
| GAA | 2014 | 271 |
| Tennis (US Open) | 2016 | 271 |
| Tennis (French Open) | 2016 | 269 |
| Tennis (US Open) | 2017 | 269 |
| Cricket (T20 WC) | 2016 | 264 |
| Aussie Rules | 2011 | 262 |
| College Football | 2016-17 | 261 |
| Cricket (Eng summer) | 2014 | 256 |
| Basketball | 2014-15 | 256 |
| Cricket (SA v Eng) | 2016 | 254 |
| Basketball | 2015-16 | 252 |
| Basketball | 2010-11 | 249 |
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