This is awesome! I was just talking to a friend about how z-scores would be a better tool for evaluating GOATs across eras and would love to see it for the advanced metrics like PER, win shares, and so on. The GOAT debate is more emotional than it is data driven (some people just have stronger attachments to some players and that’s fine since that’s sort of what sports fandom is anyway), but it would still make it easier to argue who is “better” when there are too many confounding variables to make direct comparisons across positions/eras actually useful. Well done!
This is awesome! I was just talking to a friend about how z-scores would be a better tool for evaluating GOATs across eras and would love to see it for the advanced metrics like PER, win shares, and so on. The GOAT debate is more emotional than it is data driven (some people just have stronger attachments to some players and that’s fine since that’s sort of what sports fandom is anyway), but it would still make it easier to argue who is “better” when there are too many confounding variables to make direct comparisons across positions/eras actually useful. Well done!