one light year 1 ly is the distance that light travels in one year in one second light travels 186282 miles or 299793 km since there are in a tropical year about 31569260 seconds we can find the length of a light year by multiplying velocity by time to give 5 88 trillion miles 9 46 trillion km
Baseball is the most skilled but least athletic. Basketball is the least skilled, but you have to be pretty athletic. Soccer, Ice Hockey, and Water Polo I'd say are the 3 sports that best combine the skill with the athleticism.
You stated that football and basketball are the two sports where sheer athleticism can overcome skill...meaning that basketball is not the most technical or skillful sport. You basically just proved my point. There are tons of people nationwide that can hold a backyard or driveway game of basketball and do pretty well.