Late baseball legends Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron have been outranked by players from later eras as a new study has calculated the sport's greatest players of all time.

Researchers from the statistics and history departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new statistical framework for comparing baseball players across different eras.

The study may finally settles debates that they argue typically "overvalue players from earlier eras of baseball," by offering a "significant advancement in how historical player performance is understood and evaluated," the university claimed in a statement.

The new ranking of the players was based on Full House Models, a new framework created by the researchers. It adjusts player metrics by "balancing the achievements of Majo

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