Net 54 Baseball HOF

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by camlov2

I think this should be open to all players, not just those in the HOF already. As long as they are retired for 5 years I feel they should be allowed. This way net54 gets to voice their own opinion will regard to banned players.

Not sure how to limit the players on the first ballot, unless you make it 100 players long someone would complain that they can't vote for who they want to.

Looking forward to the first vote!

Lots of great ideas. I'll compile them all and return...

[frankbmd]

Scott and all,

On a slightly more serious note than my prior post, this project will be driven by the rules. Do we want a more exclusive or inclusive Hall of Fame? One idea that I would offer is to have a fixed number of slots in our Hall, so that once filled to gain entry, a new player would not only have to be elected, but an existing player would have to be voted off the island. I would suggest that the number be 100, smaller than the current Hall. Players would not be absolutely ranked so the guy voted off could change based on whose getting in. I can hear the objections already, so as a corollary to the 100 man Hall (call it Hall A), a second(B), third(C) or fourth(D) tier could be added with similar transition rules for moving from one tier to another. Alternatively, given the interests of the Board, we could have multiple Halls with a fixed number of slots each for different eras (19th century, dead ball, interwar, postwar <1980 and modern). We could even have a wing called the "Juice" Bar for the McGwire & Bonds gang.

[z28jd]

I can't wait for the first discussion of a modern one-inning reliever comes up. I think it's laughable to put failed starters in the HOF over actual starters that put in 3x-4x the work. If more than 1/3 of your appearances are one inning or less, you shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame unless you also put up 200 wins as a starter first(basically I just covered John Smoltz's butt here).

I don't even like Sutter and Gossage in the hall, and they put in more than one inning many a time. Wait till they start putting in the actual one inning guys like Rivera and Hoffman, bleh. Then at least they can start making the case for Lenny Harris, Cliff Johnson and Smokey Burgess as pinch-hitters, and eventually Jack Reed will get in because who else could pinch-run and defensively replace Mickey Mantle any better!

I heard that Elroy Face already plans on crying the day Hoffman is elected

[wazoo]

Ed Cicotte, Ginger Beaumont, Dill Dahlen 2k12.

[paul]

I like the idea. There's another website that maintains a "Hall of Merit" and I like their approach. They mimic what the Hall of Fame did. In their first vote, only players who were eligible in 1936 are eligible. Then, in their second vote, only players who were eligible in 1937 are eligible. That way the Hall of Fame fills up first with old timers, and only later with modern players. But the old timers continue to be eligible perpetually so they can be voted in with the modern players too. Also, Negro Leaguers are eligible starting in the 1936 election, as long as they were retired by that time. They don't have to wait for the 1971 election when the Hall opened its doors to Satchel Paige.

[Texxxx]

I think this sounds like a lot of fun. I thought I would throw out a way of doing it, with refinements of course.
Start with everyone being able to nominate one person for the HOF.
The first vote will be for players that played before say 1910.
After getting all the nominations and discussing for a month, everyone gets 5 votes. The 5 players with the most votes are in. The next nomination will automatically have the 5 players just under the 5 that where voted in plus new nominations. This time it will include players that played prior to 1920. This goes on until we get to current date. Then we only have votes say every 6 months.
Just a thought.

[bcbgcbrcb]

I like Paul's idea.........

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by paul

I like the idea. There's another website that maintains a "Hall of Merit" and I like their approach. They mimic what the Hall of Fame did. In their first vote, only players who were eligible in 1936 are eligible. Then, in their second vote, only players who were eligible in 1937 are eligible. That way the Hall of Fame fills up first with old timers, and only later with modern players. But the old timers continue to be eligible perpetually so they can be voted in with the modern players too. Also, Negro Leaguers are eligible starting in the 1936 election, as long as they were retired by that time. They don't have to wait for the 1971 election when the Hall opened its doors to Satchel Paige.

sounds good ^

[Rich Klein]

My first htought was we need a NET54 Poster HOF

From the one-shot poster who set off the Joe Jackson thread to great consistent posters such as Dorskind and Crandall, we need to honor both the one-off great posts as well as the consistently thought provoking posts

Rich