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Originally Posted by BrennanB
However any other sport has matches longer than 2:15, or their season is more than what? 25 matches? Being generous here. Sooo 56 minutes of play time. Or like. One match of any other sport.
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High school football seasons are typically shorter than 10 games (not counting playoffs). While a football game lasts 2-3 hours of time in an evening and 60 minutes of game clock, there's
roughly only 11 minutes of actual gameplay in that span. Considering an individual athlete is (typically) only playing offense or defense (not both), cut that figure in half again. For football, we're getting into similar territories of playtime.
Plenty of other sports condense their competitions into short fire bursts. A cheerleading routine is only a few minutes long, and only done in competition a handful of times per season. Swim and track races have sprints that last under a minute (or just a matter of seconds). Shotput, javelin, long jump, and other individual track and field events are rather swift affairs for each athlete.
There are obviously some other sports with much longer match times (cross country) and higher rates of individual participation (basketball starts may play close to the entire game). But generalizing statements about playing time versus high school sports are going to have tons of exceptions. FRC certainly doesn't provide the best bang for the buck in terms of playing time, but it's more competitive than you may think.