Shawn Chambers: The Worst Player in Sports Video Game History?

Jeremy Roenick has been long considered the best hockey player in sports video game history; Clarence of Stark Raving Mad ranked him second overall in the pantheon of athletic gaming to the real L.T. in Tecmo Bowl, saying Roenick in NHL '94 "was like Sonny Chiba in 'The Street Fighter' – unstoppable."

Much like Sam Jackson in "Unbreakable," Bill Barnwell of IGN.com appears to have dedicated his life to finding the exact opposite of Roenick, i.e. the worst hockey player in sports video game history. That player, according to Barnwell, is former NHL defenseman Shawn Chambers, who amazingly was awarded a "one" overall rating in NHL '93. For perspective, Joe Reekie had a "60" overall rating, meaning a player with 1,326 career penalty minutes was "59" better than a defenseman with two Stanley Cup rings. Barnwell explores this historic achievement further in his humorous article:

In modern versions of EA games, players receive ratings on a roughly 55-100 scale, so Chambers' 1 rating has not been threatened for seemingly a decade. In addition, Chambers was not the only player on his team (the expansion Tampa Bay Lightning) to receive an extremely low rating: fellow defenseman Jeff Bloemberg (who never played a game for the Lightning) was given only a 4, while brutal winger Shayne Stevenson (he of the 27 career NHL games) mustered a whopping 7. It's even stranger, then, that Chambers was given the lowest rating in recorded video game history.

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Within the game itself, Chambers is pretty much unplayable as far as characters go. He skates on the ice like the surgeon left his scalpel inside Chambers' knee; anytime anyone comes into contact with him, he falls.

OK, so maybe we've found the worst athlete in hockey video game history. But in the entirety of sports video games? C'mon ... worse than Glass Joe?