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Caddick vs DeFreitas

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CaddickWinner
80.0

Caddick wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics

DeFreitas
79.1

DeFreitas wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Caddick
80.0

Caddick leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. 234 Test wickets for England including 7-46 against West Indies.

1. Andy Caddick
80.0
2. Phillip DeFreitas
79.1

Category breakdown

Season form · Centuries per year

Career timeline · Centuries per year

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

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Career stage · GOAT pace

Through year 5 · Centuries per year
1. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Phillip DeFreitas5 years played · career day 2,19067 runs
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Andy Caddick5 years played · career day 2,55647 runs
-29.9% vs DeFreitas at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Caddick00005105
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 DeFreitas0001251111

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 years are measured against the same window in a legend's career — Yamal against Messi at the same age-stage, a tour rookie against Tiger Woods in 1996.

MetricCaddickRetiredDeFreitasRetired
Test wickets234140
Tests played6244
Five-wicket hauls13
Best innings figures7
First-class wickets8521,221
ODI wickets115
Test runs934
Dominance w25%7470
Peak w20%8886
Longevity w20%8288
Honours w20%7068
Statistics w15%9088

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GOAT Rank · the data
Caddick80.0
DeFreitas79.1
The people
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DeFreitas

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