That's true. What I meant by inconsistent was that he would have an exceptional season, then have a noticeably worse year the subsequent season.
For instance, his PPG in 1993 is 1.49, good enough for 4th in PPG, and one of those players barely played half a season never producing at that pace again.
The next season, his pace dropped to 9th (1.19) and had a lesser selke finish.
The year after that, he had a 7th PPG finish (1.37) while winning the Selke in almost a full season. Then after that he wasn't even 10th in PPG or points, dropping to a 9th selke finish.
Fedorov had the better peak year, but in that time span Eric Lindros's consistency in the top 3 highest point per game players edges out Fedorov as the consistently better player.
The post I responded to claimed he was "maybe" the 4th best player.
Ranking Sakic and Forsberg during Lindros's peak years is debatable, considering at that point, neither player edged out Lindros for a higher PPG, nor were they receiving Selke votes at the time, except for Forsberg's last season during that time span. Which is the only one that can contend for Lindros's peak seasons. Is his 2nd in selke voting but lower PPG finish by at least 3 ranks (Depending on which season you consider to be Lindros's best) enough to edge out Lindros's peak?
During his peak, only Lemieux, Jagr, Fedorov or Forsberg have an argument for being better, or if we're to include the entirety of his best years, then only Jagr, Fedorov and Lemieux. So that makes him at least the 4th best forward in the regular season