Average "Action Time" in a game? 18 Minutes

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...0.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth

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By WSJ calculations, a baseball fan will see 17 minutes and 58 seconds of action over the course of a three-hour game. This is roughly the equivalent of a TED Talk, a Broadway intermission or the missing section of the Watergate tapes. A similar WSJ study on NFL games in January 2010 found that the average action time for a football game was 11 minutes. So MLB does pack more punch in a battle of the two biggest stop-and-start sports. By seven minutes.

Good read. Interesting. Not sure anything will ever come of it, but interesting regardless.

 

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What's the actual time of action in a Cubs game?

 

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What's the actual time of action in a Cubs game?

Whatever it is, it's a lot longer once Sveum brings in the relief pitchers.