In the end, however, I decided to keep the statistics at the periphery. While I knew that Elo ratings and other available measures might be useful from time to time, I wouldn’t be able to rely on any one metric exclusively. I decided that to identify the genuine freaks among this pool of 122 finalists, I would have to take a more holistic approach. To determine my winners, I came up with two simple claims any team must be able to make if it is, in fact, one of the best of all time.
