New App Guarantees to Get your GOAT
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Prepare to be blinded by science
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Unless you're past the age of 50 and own your own private jet and large fortune, it's unlikely you can say you've seen every single great male player of the Open Era in his prime.
 Therefore, it's tough to say who's the greatest player of all time (GOAT) - because no one can truly know how legends of yesterday would stack up against the top players of the modern game.
But science and technology can attempt to bridge the gap, as they do on a new app hosted by aneki.com, which allows you to compare the male tennis champions of the modern era based on all the particulars, including Weeks at No. 1, Career Titles, Career record and Head-to-head record, if applicable.
Based on how the players do in those categories, as well as their career records, career winning percentages, tournament wins and major titles, the application gives one player the advantage over another in head-to-head format. It's a great way to compare legends of the game, and also find out neat little bits of trivia about them.
For instance, did you know that Pete Sampras and Bjorn Borg won the exact same number of tournaments (64) in their careers? Of course, Sampras spent almost triple the amount of weeks ranked No. 1 as Bjorg, and had 144 more career wins.
To his credit, Borg had 95 fewer losses and a better overall winning percentage. Pitting the two players head to head, the machine spits out Sampras as the better.
In fact, Big Pete has the advantage on every one of the other 23 players listed in the roster with one notable but not surprising exception - Roger Federer, who in addition to winning his one and only match against Sampras, also has 64 titles, a better winning percentage (81 to 77 percent) and two more majors.
While determining the overall GOAT is a bit formulaic, seeing the program's take on other combinations is more interesting, particularly between heated rivals. The aneki.com app prefers John McEnroe to Borg by the slightest of the margins, but prefers Jimmy Connors to Big Mac. Mac also takes second fiddle to his successor, Ivan Lendl, while current champ Rafael Nadal has bypassed the career accomplishments of Stefan Edberg or Andre Agassi, but is still a considerable distance behind the Fed, despite a 14-7 head-to-head advantage.
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Posted by Nick on 11/9/2010 12:48:19 PM
Filed under: agassi, andre, bjorn, borg, connors, edberg, federer, GOAT, jimmy, mcenroe, nadal, pete, rafael, roger, sampras, stefan
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