Category profile
- Dominance
- 70
- Peak
- 80
- Longevity
- 80
- Honours
- 76
- Statistics
- 78
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 44 | |
| 2007 | 48 | |
| 2008 | 52 | |
| 2009 | 56 | |
| 2010 | 60 | |
| 2011 | 64 | |
| 2012 | 68 | |
| 2013 | 72 | |
| 2014 | 76 | |
| 2015 | 80 | |
| 2016 | 84 | |
| 2017 | 82 | |
| 2018 | 80 | |
| 2019 | 79 | |
| 2020 | 77 | |
| 2021 | 75 | |
| 2022 | 73 | |
| 2023 | 71 | |
| 2024 | 70 | |
| 2025 | 68 | |
| 2026 | 66 |
Data sources
- ITTF world ranking and championship archives
- Olympic results database
- National federation records
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Mattias Karlsson ranks #156 in Table Tennis
Mattias Karlsson ranks 156th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3858th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 76.4 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 70, Peak 80, Longevity 80, Honours 76, Statistics 78. Those categories are normalised against the full Table Tennis reference universe of 291 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 2006–present with 21 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2016, which sets the Peak component at 80. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 80 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world championship team medals 1, european team medals 2, olympic appearances 2, career world ranking best 20.
Immediately ahead sits Chester Barnes on 76.5, a gap of 0.1 points. Directly behind is Xu Xin on 76.2. 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.
Mattias Karlsson GOAT Score explained
- Dominance70/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Karlsson stood above the field while competing. Scored 70/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak80/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2016. Scored 80/100.
- Longevity80/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 20 years of competition and 21 recorded seasons. Scored 80/100.
- Honours76/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 76/100.
- Statistics78/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 78/100.
Top Karlsson comparisons
Mattias Karlsson — frequently asked
- Is Mattias Karlsson the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Mattias Karlsson ranks 156th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 76.4, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Mattias Karlsson's GOAT Score?
- 76.4 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 70 (25%), Peak 80 (20%), Longevity 80 (20%), Honours 76 (20%), Statistics 78 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Mattias Karlsson rank all time?
- 3858th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 156th within Table Tennis.
- Mattias Karlsson vs Chester Barnes: who ranks higher?
- Chester Barnes, on 76.5 against Mattias Karlsson's 76.4 — a margin of 0.1 points.