Feel free to delete this if it is indeed still going on.

I'm jumping in with the one true GOAT:

Imagine a situation where nearly everyone has their mind made up about the GOAT. Now imagine almost anyone changing their mind on a well known subject in a debate on the internet, it just doesn't happen. It is unthinkable, unimaginable, and unbelievable.

Now imagine having one poster in a thread being the only person arguing a point initially and changing the mind of EVERY single poster ( > at least 40 posters and probably somewhere closer to 100) that ventures into the thread so that they are pretty much the only people in the world (bar a handful)that believe something that is still debated often today with almost every tv and radio personality taking the incorrect position against the GOAT. More-so, the people that ventured into said thread vary in intelligence from somewhat below average to super genius.

Ladies and gentleman of SE I present to you:

No he wasn't. Some dude researched it and Bradman was 4.4 standard deviations above the mean for the sport. Bonds would have had to hit at .392 to be at Bradman's level apparently. And if Bradman was juicing it would have been less close

Bonds wasn't juicing, read the thread before you come at me with that baseless speculation. Also, .392 is a stupid measurement for baseball. Look at the OPS.

Exhibit 1 on greatness of Redbean: poster above me never read the thread.

Ok sweet, he's fourth all time in OPS, if we're taking modern era only he's 1.051 and Ramirez is 0.996. Bradman's lifetime average was 99.94 runs, next closest is 61.87

A gem from the GOAT thread:

Can’t believe USA#1 finished on the board

with the 6th, 7th & 8th picks i select carson wentz, phil foden and the fella that cracked the nazi cypher

in that order

WOAT GOAT draft?

This, Jesus, and UNDRAFTED all top 3 picks.

USA#1 probably should get drafted third iwbh.

think BOLT would have been a good pick

In a troll draft USA could go #1 for being pretty good from 1946-2016. They aren't #1 now, and Rome, Britain, Mongolia all had better empires for longer.

Can't forget the Visigoths!

1 year today worth like 50 years in year 300

i reckon usa is #1 among countries which have put a game show host in charge of the nuclear weapons

USA #158 would have been a worse pick than Durant

Muhammad is pretty clearly the GOAT leader of people - he's basically Genghis Khan, Jesus and St. Paul rolled into one person. Jesus was a nobody during his life, Genghis Khan has no lasting influence on today's world and St. Paul (the actual founder of Christianity) had to use someone else as a figurehead to prop up his religious movement and didn't take it all that far himself.

Yes, I decided to botch my sentence like the rest of this draft.

can't decide between CARBON or OXYGEN for GOAT element

but SALT has to be GOAT chemical compound

Carbon

C12H22O11 goat compound

(C12H22O11)3 sweet geometry

what are you a nerd or something

USA was on the board bc the rules limited the draft choices to people...

Muhammad solid #1 choice. Also think you could argue for Shakespeare and Da Vinci.

Sports wise I would go Collina or Serena Williams

Yeah Shakespeare and Da Vinci are solid nontroll picks as well. I have no idea who the second best playwright is, Tennessee Williams?, Shakespeare is clear and not even close GOAT in that category. When it comes to sports, I would have thrown in Jerry Rice and Wayne Gretzky.

Also Calvin and Hobbes GOAT comic strip and not close.

Dutch East India Company is the GOAT corporation and would have been a monolithic pick.