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Hoad vs Rafter
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HoadWinner
82.5Hoad wins: Dominance, Peak
Rafter
82.5Rafter wins: Statistics
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Verdict
Weighted GOAT score
🇦🇺 Lew Hoad
82.5
Hoad leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. Won four majors in a single 1956 surge and two Wimbledon titles.
1. Lew Hoad
2. Pat Rafter
Category breakdown
Season form · Titles per season
Career timeline · Titles 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 · Titles per season1. 🇦🇺 Lew Hoad5 seasons played · career day 1,825344 titles
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇦🇺 Pat Rafter5 seasons played · career day 2,5567 titles
-98.0% vs Hoad at the same stage
| Ghost race · career day | 30 | 100 | 365 | 1000 | 1825 | 3650 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Hoad | 0 | 0 | 50 | 109 | 344 | 702 |
| 🇦🇺 Rafter | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
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.
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GOAT Rank · the data
Hoad82.5
Rafter82.5
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