JohnStOnge wrote:Look guys, I posted heights and weights just to provide some metric. But just think about it. In any field of athletics the athletes have gotten better over time due, probably, to environmental factors. Wilt Chamberlin ended his NBA career 42 years ago.
You put the athletes in general in ANY professional sport 42 years ago and transport them in a time machine to the present day and the overwhelming majority of them would have NO shot to make a professional team today. I'd bet that less than 1% of them could do it and that's probably being generous.
I'm guessing that Chamberlain as he was would be in that very small percentage that could play in his professional sport today. But the overall level of talent he'd be playing against would be MUCH higher than what he played against in his time. Not even REMOTELY close. No WAY he'd have anywhere near the stats or level of dominance he had against what was, in absolute terms, a much lower overall level of competition.
How would today's athlete compare if they used 1960's training? They still make the pro teams and play on par with their counterparts. I think 100% of the 1960's players make a professional sports team today with today's training. Okay I'll change it to nearly 100%, because there will be a few from each era that won't make it.
