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What the Basketball Calorie Calculator does
Basketball Calorie Calculator: calculates Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour) and MET Used from Your Weight, Duration and Intensity (MET). Example: your weight 70 kg, duration 30 minutes and intensity (MET) 8 gives calories burned 280.
Point it at Your Weight, Duration and Intensity (MET) and it returns Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour) and MET Used. The result recalculates on every keystroke without a button press or a page reload.
It is mostly used by someone starting a new plan. A single number is most useful as a trend over time rather than a one-off judgement.
This runs client-side, which means we never receive what you enter and could not retrieve it if asked.
The sections that follow cover the fields, the method, and one full example computed from the defaults.
What do the Basketball Calorie Calculator fields mean?
The Basketball Calorie Calculator uses 3 inputs. The form opens pre-filled, so the fastest way in is usually to overwrite the one field you actually care about.
| Field | What to enter | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Your Weight | measured in kg; accepts 30 to 200 | 70 |
| Duration | measured in minutes; accepts 1 to 480 | 30 |
| Intensity (MET) | accepts 1 to 20 | 8 |
How does the Basketball Calorie Calculator work?
Each output is derived from the inputs above in a single pass; there is no hidden state carried between runs, so the same inputs always give the same calculation.
Range checks come first, so the formula only ever sees values it can handle.
Worked example
These are the values the Basketball Calorie Calculator loads by default, and the result it produces from them. These are the tool’s own default values and the result they produce, not an invented illustration.
| Your Weight | 70 kg |
|---|---|
| Duration | 30 minutes |
| Intensity (MET) | 8 |
| Calories Burned | 280 |
|---|---|
| Burn Rate (kcal/hour) | 560 |
| MET Used | 8.0 |
| Summary | About 280 kcal burned in 30 min of Basketball. |
MET values for basketball
Basketball ranges from MET 4.5 for shooting around to 9.3 for a competitive game. The jump comes from continuous court coverage rather than from the shooting itself.
| Basketball | MET | 30 min at 70 kg |
|---|---|---|
| Shooting baskets | 4.5 | 165 kcal |
| General play | 6.5 | 239 kcal |
| Game play | 8.0 | 294 kcal |
| Competitive / officiated | 9.3 | 342 kcal |
MET values are from the 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities (Ainsworth et al., Med Sci Sports Exerc 43(8):1575-81). One MET is the energy cost of sitting quietly, roughly 3.5 ml of oxygen per kilogram per minute.
What changes the number
- Full-court play roughly doubles the cost of half-court.
- Substitutions and stoppages mean elapsed game time overstates actual playing time considerably.
- Jumping and direction changes add cost that steady-state activities do not have.
These figures are population averages. Individual variation of 10–20% is normal, and the compendium itself is drawn from studies with modest sample sizes. Use the result to compare activities against each other, which it does well, rather than as an exact measure of what you personally burned.
How to use it
- Enter Your Weight in kg (30 to 200).
- Set Duration in minutes (1 to 480).
- Put Intensity (MET) (1 to 20).
- Each keystroke triggers a fresh calculation, which is cheap because it happens locally.
- You get Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour), MET Used and Summary back.
- Both Copy Link and Print capture the current state, so pick whichever suits how you file things.
What this tool does not do
- Body composition, ethnicity and age all shift what a "normal" result means.
- These formulas come from population averages and cannot account for your medical history.
- It does not account for anything you did not enter, by definition.
- Results are only as good as the inputs. Check your units before reading anything into the output.
Frequently asked questions
Enter Your Weight in kg and Duration in minutes. Look for the unit beside each label; the result is reported in a stated unit as well.
Your Weight accepts 30 to 200 kg. Out-of-range entries are refused up front, which is safer than silently clamping them.
With the values loaded when the page opens, calories burned comes out as 280. It recalculates the moment an input changes, which makes comparing scenarios quick.
It never leaves the tab. The page does the work itself rather than asking a server to.
It costs nothing, and there is no limit on repeat use.
Good enough to track a trend over time, not precise enough to act on a single reading. Repeat measurements under the same conditions tell you far more than one number does.