Those guys are super human and are the best overall. Like, they have the best combined package. But in how many specific skills are the number one? And how do they compare to Connor? Connor is the fastest, has the best hands, best vision and so on. Not necessarily the best unequivocally, but at the 99.9th percentile of his league for those things.
Messi I'd say had the best dribbling and vision. And certainly an accurate shooter. I'd say he is the closest to Connor.
Shoehei, while clearly the best, I don't know what specific skills he is clearly number one at. Mind you, I don't watch nearly as much baseball as I did back in the day. Plus, baseball has a lot of specialization like football, but not as much.
Motorsport is just very hard to discern. The only driver I can say that I saw was the best at multiple facets was Schumi. He could drive smoothly and he could drive on the ragged edge. He was also the best wet weather driver. All you had to do was watch him in 1998, the first year of grooved tires and see him in qualifying in Montreal. He would purposely slightly drift those back tires up on the apex coming out of corners. He would even purposely just nick the wall with the back tires if it meant picking up speed with a wider line coming out of the corner. Nobody else was doing that and probably very few if any could do that. Then I saw him at Indy in 2005 at the US GP and watched him atop a hill and you would see he was quite clearly the most precise driver through the last corners before the start/finish straight. A robot couldn't have been more accurate with his lines lap in lap out through those corners. His hands never had to correct. No other driver looked like that.
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