| 100% | GRAF | 4 | Who Evert called "the best all-around player" |
| 49% | JETT | 4 | Rocker Joan who was named the best female guitar player of all time by the Gibson guitar company |
| 47% | NIGEL | 5 | Richards who is generally regarded as the best Scrabble player of all time |
| 46% | ARES | 4 | Whom Zeus calls the most hateful of all the Olympian gods, in the Iliad |
| 46% | LAWYERS | 7 | Players who know the rules very well and say so |
| 44% | GEN | 3 | All the people who were born around the same time, collectively: Abbr. |
| 44% | PAIGE | 5 | Whom DiMaggio called ''the best I ever faced'' |
| 43% | DANIELLESTEEL | 13 | Novelist who is the fourth best-selling fiction writer of all time |
| 42% | BUDPOWELL | 9 | Miles Davis said he was "the best there was of all the bebop piano players" |
| 42% | TAXI | 4 | ___ squad (practice players who may be called on to join the main roster) |
| 42% | THECFL | 6 | In 2006, Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie was named the best player of all time in this league |
| 41% | PAULMORPHY | 10 | Late American chess player who was called "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," and is considered to be the best in his era (1850s): 2 wds. |
| 41% | TONYDANZA | 9 | "The Good Cop" actor who played a former pro baseball player on "Who's the Boss?": 2 wds. |
| 41% | ROD | 3 | ___ Laver, retired Australian tennis player who is considered one of the greatest of all time |
| 41% | ZIDANE | 6 | French soccer legend Zinedine who is considered one of the greatest players of all time |
| 41% | LEIBNIZ | 7 | Philosopher who coined the phrase "the best of all possible worlds" |
| 40% | SOSA | 4 | Player who failed to lead the league in all three seasons in which he hit 60+ home runs |
| 40% | SHOHEIOHTANI | 12 | Angels pitcher and outfielder who won the 2021 ESPY Award for Best MLB Player (2 wds.) |
| 40% | CANO | 4 | Mets player Robinson ___, who last year had the slowest baserunning sprint speed of all second basemen |
| 40% | MCCAW | 5 | Richie —, All Blacks captain who was 2006, 2009 and 2010 IRB International Player of the Year |
| 40% | BENWALLACE | 10 | Undrafted NBA player who became an All-Star in 2003 with the Detroit Pistons: 2 wds. |
| 40% | FREDVANVLEET | 12 | Undrafted NBA player who became an All-Star in 2022 with the Toronto Raptors: 2 wds. |
| 40% | IDEAL | 5 | The best of all worlds |
| 40% | POLICE | 6 | Called the fuzz as well |
| 40% | LEBRONJAMES | 11 | American basketball player who owns the digital company called Uninterrupted and co-owns SpringHill Entertainment: 2 wds. |
| 40% | JOHNSTARKS | 10 | Undrafted NBA player who became an All-Star in 1994 with the New York Knicks: 2 wds. |
| 40% | UTOPIA | 6 | The best of all possible worlds |
| 39% | WORLDWIDE | 9 | All around the globe, found everywhere |
| 39% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Best-selling novelist whom Time called "Bard of the Litigious Age" |