McDavid is the best of all time, I don’t care about padded stats from the 80s and I mean no disrespect to 99
Part of the reason the points were so high in the 80s was because of this outlier named Gretzky who was skewing the averages higher.
1984 Gretzky 205 points. 2nd place Coffey 79 points behind him.
1985 Gretzky 208 points. 2nd place Jarri Kurri 73 points behind him.
1986 Gretzky 215 points. 2nd place Mario Lemieux 74 points behind him.
1987 Gretzky 183 points. 2nd place Kurri 75 points behind him.
(EDIT: I could go on and on but the short answer is Gretzky was around 70 points ahead of the competition for several years)