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Originally Posted by SebC
There is absolutely no reason why the greatest athlete of all time and the second (or third, or fourth, etc.) greatest athlete of all time can't come from the same sport... if two hockey players emerge who score 10 goals a game, they'd both be at the top of the list! The appropriate comparison is to the bell curve, and smaller sports will naturally have more separation at the top just because they have more discrete bell curves. There SHOULD be more soccer players in the conversation than horseshoe throwers because soccer has been around longer and has more participants.
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This is just silly. Of course we aren’t talking about all five of the goats to be soccer players. It’s dumb, defeats the purpose of the discussion and makes no sense at all.
Literally the entire point is to take the greats from different sports and compare them.
No, no, we should just grade them on a bell curve...what? Lol why?