Category profile
- Dominance
- 90
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 96
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1876 | 0.356 | |
| 1877 | 0.337 | |
| 1878 | 0.341 | |
| 1879 | 0.317 | |
| 1880 | 0.337 | |
| 1881 | 0.399 | |
| 1882 | 0.362 | |
| 1883 | 0.308 | |
| 1884 | 0.335 | |
| 1885 | 0.31 | |
| 1886 | 0.371 | |
| 1887 | 0.347 | |
| 1888 | 0.344 | |
| 1889 | 0.342 | |
| 1890 | 0.312 | |
| 1891 | 0.291 | |
| 1892 | 0.272 | |
| 1893 | 0.314 | |
| 1894 | 0.395 | |
| 1895 | 0.335 | |
| 1896 | 0.331 | |
| 1897 | 0.285 |
Data sources
- MLB.com
- Baseball Reference
- National Baseball Hall of Fame
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Cap Anson ranks #9 in Baseball
Cap Anson ranks 9th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 831st of 2289 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 92.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 90, Peak 94, Longevity 96, Honours 88, Statistics 94. Those categories are normalised against the full Baseball reference universe of 262 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1871–1897 with 22 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1881, which sets the Peak component at 94. Longevity is the defining strength of the profile at 96 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes career hits 3435, career batting average 0.334, batting titles 4, career rbi 2075.
Immediately ahead sits Barry Bonds on 92.3, a gap of 0.1 points. Directly behind is Cy Young on 92.1. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Cap Anson GOAT Score explained
- Dominance90/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Anson stood above the field while competing. Scored 90/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak94/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1881. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity96/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 26 years of competition and 22 recorded seasons. Scored 96/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Anson comparisons
Cap Anson — frequently asked
- Is Cap Anson the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Cap Anson ranks 9th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 92.2, behind Babe Ruth on 94.6.
- What is Cap Anson's GOAT Score?
- 92.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 90 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 96 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Cap Anson rank all time?
- 831st of 2289 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 9th within Baseball.
- Cap Anson vs Barry Bonds: who ranks higher?
- Barry Bonds, on 92.3 against Cap Anson's 92.2 — a margin of 0.1 points.