Rank the four leagues.

The Game Room
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  1. NHL
  2. Rocket League
  3. League of Women Voters
  4. League of Legends
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  1. MLB
    1a. NBA
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  2. NFL
  3. NHL
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  1. NHL
  2. NFL
  3. MLB
  4. CFL
  5. OHL
  6. NASCAR
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    World Series of Poker
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    Wipe-Out
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    Bowling for Dollars
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    NBA
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NFL - the only one I will watch random games of.

NBA - actually, the above is a lie. But only because they don’t air Wizards games on TV without cable, so I have to watch whatever I can get.

NHL - Caps are clearly the best team in town, but I still don’t really care that much.

MLB - I follow the Orioles :(. And I still don’t give a shit about the Nats.

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Nfl
mlb
nba
nhl

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  1. MLB forever and always
  2. NBA pretty consistently but it could flip between 2-3 from year to year
  3. NFL
  4. NHL

College football would probably be the real #2. College basketball would rank ahead of the NHL.

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In terms of personal enjoyment:

  1. NHL
  2. NFL
  3. MLB
  4. NBA

In terms of league ‘power’:

  1. NFL
  2. NBA
  3. MLB
  4. NHL

In terms of managing/ running the sport:
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4) MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL

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I’m not intimately familiar with NHL management, but I’d argue that MLB is run much better than the NFL or NBA. This is mostly thanks to a players union that is strong enough to balance out the owners. And the NBA is run better than the NFL thanks to a pretty reasonable commissioner. The NFL would be a nightmare to run because there are so many players, the owners have so much more power and money than the players, and the very nature of the sport has stirred up some controversy lately.

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  1. NASCAR

  2. Ball sports except tennis.

  3. Sports on ice.

  4. Tennis.

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I’m not much of a pro sports fan to be honest, so my sports league interest would be something like this:

Pro leagues:
[ol]
[li]NFL[/li][li]MLB[/li][li]MLS[/li][li]NBA[/li][li]NHL[/li][/ol]

Overall probably more like this:
[ol]
[li]NCAA Football (primarily SEC)[/li][li]NFL[/li][li]MLB[/li][li]NCAA Basketball[/li][li]MLS[/li][li]NBA[/li][li]NHL[/li][/ol]

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rather dismayed that the NHL is consistently ranked so low. at least there’s always something going on, unlike baseball which is 10 minutes of action crammed into 2.5 hours, or football which is 15 minutes of action packed into 3 hours and endless stoppages and reviews.

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  1. College football
  2. NFL
    3/4 NBA/MLB

NCAA FBS is by far the easiest for me to follow.

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As the NHL is 4th in US ratings it should be surprising. Baseball is the oldest of the 4 and also lends itself to geeks more than the others with the 10,000 stats. We have a lot of geeks here. The NFL is of course the big powerhouse sport, its amazing except for the geek factor that MLB is running neck to neck with the NFL.

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  1. The National League (That’s where the Dodgers are, so duh).

  2. The American League (they shouldn’t even be considered a part of baseball, given that they deploy the abomination known as the Designated Hitter, but SOMEBODY has to lose to the Dodgers in the World Series, so whatareyagonnado?).

  3. 20,000 (Under the Sea)

  4. (I mean 4.) The one of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I’ve heard people speak approvingly of that one).

(Honorable Mention) The Red-headed one (Sherlock Holmes is COOL).

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Okay, I’ve glanced at the thread, and it occurs to me that I may have misunderstood the question (I was WONDERING why the thread title seemed to be implying that there are as many as four leagues. I really gotta start reading OPs instead of just answering thread titles).

So, before I answer this for real, what are NBA, NFL and NHL (those appear to be the ones most people are mentioning)?

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  1. Major League Baseball

  2. National Football League

  3. National Basketball Association

  4. National Hockey League

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  1. Major League Baseball
  2. Notre Dame college football
  3. 2014-June 2018 NBA, while LeBron James was on the Cleveland Cavaliers
    3 Now - anything else on TV, except for soccer or golf. Man, I hate soccer and golf. ’
  4. NHL Hockey is great in person but terrible on TV.
    5 NFL. I used to be a huge NFL fan, but when the Browns left Cleveland in 1995 I lost interest and have never really gone back to it. I’ve been to a couple News Browns’ games when someone gives me tickets and I dont have anything better to do, but I don’t care much about it anymore.
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NBA: National Basketball Association – the top level of professional basketball play in the U.S. (with one Canadian team)
NFL: National Football League – the top level of professional American football play in the U.S.
NHL: National Hockey League – the top level of professional hockey play in the U.S. and Canada

Also:
MLS: Major League Soccer – the top level of professional baseball play in the U.S. As some are noting, the quality of play in MLS is generally seen to be inferior to the quality of play in the top tiers of professional soccer in many other countries

Also, with regards to jz78817’s comment about the NHL often coming in low – hockey has traditionally had a regional appeal. Wildly popular in Canada and some northern U.S. states, but while a few of the teams that the NHL has placed in the southern states have done all right, the league’s “southern strategy” has had decidedly mixed results at creating vast numbers of hockey fans in the southern U.S. And, for many years, the NHL didn’t even have a nationwide TV contract in the U.S.

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1.NFL

2.MLB

  1. NHL (a very close three)

4.NBA…Never watch it… a very very distant 4th

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It’s close between the top three, but I’d rate them MLB, NBA, NFL. With NHL a distant fourth, though I do watch sometimes during the playoffs.