Category profile
- Dominance
- 90
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 82
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 92
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 20 | |
| 1902 | 14 | |
| 1903 | 30 | |
| 1904 | 33 | |
| 1905 | 31 | |
| 1906 | 22 | |
| 1907 | 24 | |
| 1908 | 37 | |
| 1909 | 25 | |
| 1910 | 27 | |
| 1911 | 26 | |
| 1912 | 23 | |
| 1913 | 25 | |
| 1914 | 24 | |
| 1915 | 8 | |
| 1916 | 4 |
Data sources
- MLB
- 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 Christy Mathewson ranks #42 in Baseball
Christy Mathewson ranks 42nd among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 428th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 89.1 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 90, Peak 94, Longevity 82, Honours 88, Statistics 92. 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 1900–1916 with 16 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1908, which sets the Peak component at 94. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes career wins 373, career era 2.13, strikeouts 2507, world series titles 1.
Immediately ahead sits Tim Raines on 87.1, a gap of -2.0 points. Directly behind is Mickey Mantle on 88.5. 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.
Christy Mathewson GOAT Score explained
- Dominance90/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Mathewson 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 1908. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity82/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 16 years of competition and 16 recorded seasons. Scored 82/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics92/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 92/100.
Top Mathewson comparisons
Christy Mathewson — frequently asked
- Is Christy Mathewson the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Christy Mathewson ranks 42nd in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 89.1, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Christy Mathewson's GOAT Score?
- 89.1 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 90 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 82 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 92 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Christy Mathewson rank all time?
- 428th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 42nd within Baseball.
- Christy Mathewson vs Tim Raines: who ranks higher?
- Christy Mathewson, on 89.1 against Tim Raines's 87.1 — a margin of 2.0 points.