Sports, in every game, is a much different beast today. Is anyone out there enough of a bicycle racing history buff to know how important teams and team tactics were before the modern era (say, 1999 to today)? I do not recall ever hearing any of the annoucers of the past few years allude to team tactics when talking about the "greats" of old (Merckx, Anquetil, et al). Would be interesting to contrast the teams tactics of pre-Indurain with those of today.
But, we are stuck with the conumdrum of who is better, Tiger or Jack. And like LA and Merckx, we will never know. Different times.