Welcome! Browse around and make yourself at home. The top 100 lists can be found in the drop-down menus above along with detailed sections for each sport called “Making the Cut” where I explain—in painstaking detail—the methodology for each list. The “Activity Log” below will chart the changes I make as they happen. The “About” section includes a series of essays highlighting why top 100 lists have historically been heavily biased towards previous generations and what we can do to change course. The information on the site is structured like a book. Major themes/topics are broken up into “chapters” so feel free to come back as often as you like. No need to read everything at once. There’s a lot to take in. For the most part, changes to the lists in the four major sports will be made following award seasons while changes to the MMA list will be made following each show as warranted. I hope you enjoy the lists and the extras that go with them (including detailed write-ups for the top 100 baseball players of all-time). Thanks for visiting! — Jake

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Hi (hopefully) awesome reader! I welcome your comments. However, please be aware that I make all of my arguments using facts, statistics, and logic. Unfortunately, the average comment on a top-100 list goes something like this:

"UR StooPid. (Insert player) is trash. I've watched (pick a sport) for (pick a number of years) and (pick a player) is better than everyone. UR DUMB. HAHA6969."

–Some Jabroni

As cognitively stimulating as this species of comment is, it ends up being a missed opportunity to share a nuanced perspective. I reply to all comments that show even the most basic levels of thought and humility. The people who make the comments like the example above are under the assumption that the three seconds of thought that popped into their brains after reading the list is more than the 1000s of hours that I put into creating and maintaining the lists. I would be happy to defend any placement, or make an adjustment if one is warranted. If you are a jabroni, like the one above, then your comment will die in the lonely void of the unpublished comments section.

For everyone else, I look forward to your comments!

P.S. The theme of this site and the top-100 lists is that athletes from previous generations have historically been grossly overrated by sports publications in a way that is statistically improbable. Click on the "About" dropdown menu to see just how badly the average top-100 list disproportionately favors athletes from older generations when leagues were smaller, race quotas existed, and globalization wasn't a thing. Also, please consider reading "The History" section of the sport you are commenting on.

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