The Machine

The Machine ranks each sport from the record alone: titles, dominance over contemporaries, peak, and longevity. How much each one counts is a matter of taste, so set your own weights and watch the lists re-rank. Open a sport for the full math, what the AIs think, and its greatest moments. Arrows show movement from the Standardโ€™s weights.

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Men's Tennis

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  1. 1 Novak Djokovic98.2
  2. 2 Rafael Nadal88.0
  3. 3 Roger Federer86.8
  4. 4 Jimmy Connors65.8
  5. 5 Pete Sampras65.6
  6. 6 Ivan Lendl54.9
  7. 7 Bjรถrn Borg52.2
  8. 8 Carlos Alcaraz40.0

Women's Tennis

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  1. 1 Steffi Graf91.5
  2. 2 Serena Williams83.8
  3. 3 Martina Navratilova81.5
  4. 4 Chris Evert72.9
  5. 5 Monica Seles49.5
  6. 6 Justine Henin38.2
  7. 7 Iga ลšwiฤ…tek35.1
  8. 8 Venus Williams33.7

Men's Golf

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  1. 1 Tiger Woods92.4
  2. 2 Jack Nicklaus76.5
  3. 3 Ben Hogan57.9
  4. 4 Walter Hagen57.9
  5. 5 Sam Snead52.1
  6. 6 Tom Watson48.2
  7. 7 Arnold Palmer43.0
  8. 8 Gary Player39.6

Basketball

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  1. 1 Michael Jordan79.1
  2. 2 LeBron James79.1
  3. 3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar74.2
  4. 4 Magic Johnson59.2
  5. 5 Bill Russell58.1
  6. 6 Wilt Chamberlain56.6
  7. 7 Larry Bird53.4
  8. 8 Nikola Jokiฤ‡49.3
  9. 9 Moses Malone40.6

American Football

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  1. 1 Tom Brady75.5
  2. 2 Peyton Manning60.7
  3. 3 Jerry Rice53.9
  4. 4 Jim Brown53.6
  5. 5 Joe Montana48.4
  6. 6 Lawrence Taylor40.8
  7. 7 Patrick Mahomes39.4
  8. 8 Walter Payton30.2

Soccer

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  1. 1 Lionel Messi77.0
  2. 2 Pelรฉ66.7
  3. 3 Cristiano Ronaldo58.1
  4. 4 Ronaldo Nazรกrio46.4
  5. 5 Franz Beckenbauer34.5
  6. 6 Zinedine Zidane26.7
  7. 7 Johan Cruyff24.4
  8. 8 Diego Maradona20.7

Baseball (Position Players)

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  1. 1 Babe Ruth88.3
  2. 2 Barry Bonds76.6
  3. 3 Lou Gehrig71.9
  4. 4 Mickey Mantle71.7
  5. 5 Stan Musial66.5
  6. 6 Ted Williams63.4
  7. 7 Willie Mays63.0
  8. 8 Ty Cobb62.2
  9. 9 Hank Aaron58.1

Hockey

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  1. 1 Wayne Gretzky86.8
  2. 2 Gordie Howe63.2
  3. 3 Mario Lemieux57.9
  4. 4 Jean Bรฉliveau48.3
  5. 5 Connor McDavid45.5
  6. 6 Sidney Crosby42.2
  7. 7 Alex Ovechkin39.3
  8. 8 Bobby Orr36.4

Boxing

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  1. 1 Sugar Ray Robinson67.5
  2. 2 Manny Pacquiao66.7
  3. 3 Henry Armstrong65.1
  4. 4 Roberto Durรกn60.5
  5. 5 Floyd Mayweather Jr.57.6
  6. 6 Sugar Ray Leonard50.6
  7. 7 Joe Louis44.4
  8. 8 Muhammad Ali38.5

Track & Field

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  1. 1 Paavo Nurmi95.0
  2. 2 Allyson Felix86.0
  3. 3 Carl Lewis84.3
  4. 4 Usain Bolt73.0
  5. 5 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce54.0
  6. 6 Michael Johnson49.1
  7. 7 Jesse Owens44.9
  8. 8 Mondo Duplantis25.8

Swimming

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  1. 1 Michael Phelps100.0
  2. 2 Katie Ledecky64.8
  3. 3 Caeleb Dressel53.4
  4. 4 Mark Spitz51.0
  5. 5 Emma McKeon45.4
  6. 6 Jenny Thompson44.0
  7. 7 Ian Thorpe36.7