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How GOATvs ranks the greatest of all time
What GOATvs is
GOATvs ranks the greatest of all time: musicians, footballers, movies, songs, games, books, places and more. You see two names and tap the one you think is greater. Every pick counts toward the world's Top 100 and builds your own Top 10.
How a pick becomes a ranking
Each list is counted with the Bradley-Terry model, the idea behind chess ratings. Every name has a strength, and every pick moves the two names' strengths a little. Beating a name near the top counts for more than beating one near the bottom, so a name climbs by winning many different match-ups, not one.
Fair play
Each person's weight in a list is capped, so a few very busy voters can't decide it. Votes that look automated don't count, and neither do the votes of guests who only ever visit once. A name moves when many different people judge it.
Where a list starts
Before the votes, each list starts from how well known each name is: Wikidata, Wikipedia page views and published all-time lists, named on the Sources page. From there, the votes decide.
How often
Every list is counted again every 10 minutes, so the Top 100 changes as the votes come in, and each list shows the week's risers and fallers.
Who runs it
GOATvs is an independent site run by Berat Oğuz in Turkey. Something wrong, a name missing, or named and would rather not be? Write to hello@goatvs.com. We read every message.