An argument you can check, and then disagree with.
117 players have finished on a Ballon d'Or podium since 1956. Each one is measured here against three factors — individual magic, the World Cup, and the emotional mark he left — and each is measured against the ceiling of his own generation, never against ours. Sort any column. Tick two names to put them head to head. And when you reach the part you disagree with, change it and watch the board move.
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click any header to sort · unmeasured values always sink to the bottomReading the table. Magic is Ballon d'Or points over the points a player of that generation could have won. World Cup is final-day points over the finals his generation could have contested. Emotional is a single placement, not an accumulation. Eleven players carry no denominator at all and are shown greyed — a missing measurement is not a zero.