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Sporting Super Heroes : the Highest Rated Heroes
Super Hero Ratings
I have designed my own ranking system to give each hero a rating score. Each hero is rated on five criteria which have been determined to be the most important attributes of a sporting hero. The five criteria are skill, character, family, charity and popular culture. For more details about these criteria, and why these were chosen, see What Makes a Hero?
Comparing the ratings of these heroes, we can determine the best rated hero - a superhero? Below is the top rated superheroes list based on the ratings that have been given to the current list of heroes on this site, with their average scores weighted based on the importance of each of the criteria. This table was created in March 2011 - the ratings are still being made so the order is expected to change over time, and new sports people will be added to the rating list too.
the Super Heroes List!
Here are the top 20 rated heroes. For fans of these sports, there are not many surprises with the top few heroes, with Michael Jordan the clear winner. The highest ranked female hero is Billie Jean King at 12.
| Rank | Hero | Sport | weighted ave. score (%)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Jordan | Basketball | 64.1 |
| 2 | Walter Payton | American Football | 62.2 |
| 3 | Lance Armstrong | Cycling | 61.9 |
| 4 | Pele | Soccer | 61.4 |
| 5 | Muhammad Ali | Boxing | 60.9 |
| 6 | Bobby Orr | Ice Hockey | 60.6 |
| 7 | Diego Maradona | Soccer | 60.5 |
| 8 | David Robinson | Basketball | 60.5 |
| 9 | Don Bradman | Cricket | 60.2 |
| 10 | Zinedine Zidane | Soccer | 60.1 |
| 11 | Roger Federer | Tennis | 59.6 |
| 12 | Billie Jean King | Tennis | 58.8 |
| 13 | Ian Thorpe | Swimming | 58.6 |
| 14 | Babe Zaharias | Golf | 58.6 |
| 15 | Sachin Tendulkar | Cricket | 58.6 |
| 16 | Wasim Akram | Cricket | 58.5 |
| 17 | Venus Williams | Tennis | 58.0 |
| 18 | Michael Phelps | Swimming | 58.0 |
| 19 | David Beckham | Soccer | 57.8 |
| 20 | Johnny Unitas | American Football | 57.8 |
* the score weighting is based on the rating vote in each of the hero categories, weighted by the importance rating and then a factor based on the number of votes
Related Pages
- Hero profiles
- What makes a Hero?
- Why don't you suggest your hero
- athlete profiles
