It can be done, but if you want it to be halfway quantified and statistical, you need to ignore historian's methods for doing so.
What you do is a repeated heap sort algorithm.
You can select a broad range of categories of performance like economy, war, social, political, etc., and rate them initially on a binary scale of worse or better (0 or 1).
You then refine this several times rerunning the algorithm.
It will return a reasonable stacked rating of presidents.
No, I'm not going to do it because I have other projects in the pipeline and don't have the time. Historians almost entirely won't do it because they aren't trained or skilled to think this way (I'm a rare crossover being an engineer and historian and focused mostly on technical topics related to war).
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