Category profile
- Dominance
- 90
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 90
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 0.381 | |
| 1901 | 0.353 | |
| 1902 | 0.33 | |
| 1903 | 0.355 | |
| 1904 | 0.349 | |
| 1905 | 0.363 | |
| 1906 | 0.339 | |
| 1907 | 0.35 | |
| 1908 | 0.354 | |
| 1909 | 0.339 | |
| 1910 | 0.32 | |
| 1911 | 0.334 | |
| 1912 | 0.324 | |
| 1913 | 0.3 | |
| 1914 | 0.252 | |
| 1915 | 0.274 | |
| 1916 | 0.287 | |
| 1917 | 0.265 |
Data sources
- MLB
- Baseball Reference
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Honus Wagner ranks #18 in Baseball
Honus Wagner ranks 18th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 286th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 89.8 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 90, Peak 92, Longevity 90, Honours 84, 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 1897–1917 with 18 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1900, which sets the Peak component at 92. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes batting titles 8, career hits 3420, stolen bases 723, world series titles 1.
Immediately ahead sits Greg Maddux on 89.3, a gap of -0.5 points. Directly behind is Albert Pujols on 89.2. 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.
Honus Wagner GOAT Score explained
- Dominance90/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Wagner stood above the field while competing. Scored 90/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak92/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1900. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity90/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 20 years of competition and 18 recorded seasons. Scored 90/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Wagner comparisons
Honus Wagner — frequently asked
- Is Honus Wagner the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Honus Wagner ranks 18th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 89.8, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Honus Wagner's GOAT Score?
- 89.8 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 90 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 90 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Honus Wagner rank all time?
- 286th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 18th within Baseball.
- Honus Wagner vs Greg Maddux: who ranks higher?
- Honus Wagner, on 89.8 against Greg Maddux's 89.3 — a margin of 0.5 points.