the.com/all time greats
the leaderboard everyone argues about and nobody can actually audit.
means a subjective ranking of the best-ever performers in a field, treated by fans as objective fact.
from sports broadcasting popularized the phrase mid-20th century to compare eras that never actually competed against each other, which is exactly why the arguments never end.
era biasolder greats judged by stats, newer ones by highlights
sample sizeone bad final can erase a decade
recency effectwhoever you saw play feels greatest
no control groupnobody time-travels to test prime vs prime