The Biggest Sports Stadiums In The World

Over the next couple of weeks, the major European soccer leagues will get the new season started, beginning with the Premier League in England this weekend. Even though many people in UK consider the Premier League the best league in the world, none of its stadiums are among the largest. In fact, the United States is home to the majority of capacious sports grounds with eight of the world’s top ten biggest scattered around the country, according to Australia’s Daily Telegraph.

They include the gargantuan Michigan stadium in Ann Arbor which boasts a capacity of 113,000, the Beaver Stadium in Pennsylvania with nearly 111,000 and the Ohio Stadium in Columbus with 105,000. The stadium with the largest capacity anywhere on the planet is actually in Pyongyang, North Korea. Stretched out over 20.7 hectares and boasting a mammoth capacity of 114,000, the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium plays host to soccer matches but most often the mass games of the Arirang Festival.

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Batter Up – The Most and Least Consistent Hitters

Keeping your eye on the ball isn’t as easy as it sounds. Batting averages for professional major league baseball players vary widely from year to year. Khris Davis of the Oakland Athletics just made history as the most consistent hitter for any 5-year period.

This consistency stat, called total movement, is calculated by taking the absolute difference of a player’s batting average from one year to the next. Babe Ruth hitting between 1930-1934 is roughly the average for the sample FiveThirtyEight reported on, coming in at about 100 points.

Davis’ total movement is only 4 points. For the past five years his batting average from year to year has virtually gone unchanged. His consistency is remarkable given that he must hit a ball hurled at him at speeds nearing 100mph.

Baseball Batting Average Infographic