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Seto vs Pan

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PanWinner
82.8

Pan wins: Dominance, Peak, Statistics

Seto
82.7

Seto wins: Longevity, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇨🇳 Pan Zhanle
82.8

Pan leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Olympic 100 m freestyle champion and world record holder at 46.40 seconds.

1. Pan Zhanle
82.8
2. Daiya Seto
82.7

Category breakdown

Season form · Form index per season

Career timeline · Form index per season

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

GOAT pace tracker

Career stage · GOAT pace

Through season 5 · Form index per season
1. 🇯🇵 Daiya Seto5 seasons played · career day 1,826404 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇨🇳 Pan Zhanle5 seasons played · career day 1,82513 major golds
-96.8% vs Seto at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇯🇵 Seto0064152318754
🇨🇳 Pan00131313

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 seasons 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.

MetricSetoActivePanActive
World Championship golds51
Short course world titles8
Olympic medals1
Asian Games golds33
Olympic Games contested3
Olympic gold medals2
World records2
100 m freestyle world record46.4
Dominance w25%8088
Peak w20%8896
Longevity w20%8262
Honours w20%8280
Statistics w15%8288

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Pan82.8
Seto82.7
The people
Seto
Pan

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