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Reddit Sports. Sports News and Highlights from the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NCAA, F1, and other leagues around the world. Founded 2007 · 22.1M members · links only

22.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 142.8K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
22.1Mmembers
142.8Kbest post
6.2Kmost comments
629posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

61% 36%
Link 61% Video 36% Image 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

:soccer: Soccer 93 :football: Football 86 :tennis: Tennis 66 :baseball: Baseball 55 :golf: Golf 47 :basketball: Basketball 47 :racing: Motorsports 28 Picture/Video 23 :cycle: Cycling 15 :news: News 14

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Weightlifter promised his wife to win an Olympic gold medal before she died in a car accident

↑ 142.8K 💬 2.4K video 2017

The LA Rams have an assistant coach whose job is to make sure Head Coach Sean McVay doesn't run into the officials

↑ 110.3K 💬 2.8K video 2019

A Pelicans fan snuck on to the court for warmups, stretched and put up a shot before the police escorted him off

↑ 104.2K 💬 2.1K video 2018

Jon Rahm skips the ball across the pond for the hole-in-one!

↑ 102.7K 💬 1.7K video 2020

"Just stay in there, you're done for tonight"

↑ 102K 💬 1.6K video 2018

The Monterrey Stadium. Mexico.

↑ 100.1K 💬 1.9K image 2017

Dwyane Wade was very pleased with this no-look pass from LeBron

↑ 97.6K 💬 1.7K video 2018

Synced videos of the Eagles fan running into the pillar

↑ 97.5K 💬 1.7K video 2018

Boxing referee Steve Willis really loves his job

↑ 97.4K 💬 1.2K video 2018

US VP JD Vance getting booed during 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony

↑ 97.3K 💬 780 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/sports, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/sports?
r/sports ("Reddit Sports") describes itself this way: Sports News and Highlights from the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NCAA, F1, and other leagues around the world. It was founded in 2007 and has 22.1M members.
How many members does r/sports have?
r/sports has about 22.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 629 of its posts; the biggest reached 142.8K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sports?
"Weightlifter promised his wife to win an Olympic gold medal before she died in a car accident" reached 142.8K upvotes and 2.4K comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sports.
What subreddits are similar to r/sports?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/dankmemes, r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside.
What kind of posts do best on r/sports?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are link posts and 36% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sports?
Across 629 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (56.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (51.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (50.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/sports?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sports has 90.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 168 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/sports, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.