I’ll add that soccer players run like 7 or so miles per game at the upper levels, incredible athletes. And outside of the USA, most of the world’s great athletes gravitate towards this sport.
Agree on football and basketball. Although they are by and large limited to Americans or, in basketball, freakishly tall people.
Hockey is tough but you play on lines and get a rest.
Baseball is a lot of standing around and sitting. Great athletes, but I agree they are less active than the others. Still, the level of competition is intense.
I’d say:
1. American football
2. Everyone else’s futbol
3. basketball
4. Baseball.
5. Hockey. (Maybe ahead of baseball, but I’m American so I can’t say that publicly).