THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Yawn (and not just because it’s hockey).  I don’t understand why anyone is allowed to vote more than once anyway.  It wouldn’t be that difficult to limit voting to one per person, at least to the extent that the bots would have to be significantly smarter to game the system.

They could easily send a link to each email address that registers that enables the owner of that address to vote once.  Anyone that’s automatically breaking Google’s CAPTCHAs and registering thousands of Gmail addresses per day is making their living sending spam and doesn’t care about the all star game.

Do that, and hand out one ballot per fan at each game.  Not very difficult.  It seems like they want to encourage ballot box stuffing.

Hahahaha..Just read the full FAQ.  This is hilarious.  What are these people thinking - how dare they use a tool that was given to them?

9. What is a Team Vote?
A Team Vote is a quick and easy way to cast a vote for every NHL player on a specific team, who is also on the official NHL All-Star ballot. Only NHL players who are on the official ballot will be eligible to be included in Team Votes. Write-in votes are not included in Team Votes. When you cast a Team Vote, each player on the team you have chosen, who is also on the official ballot, will get one vote. To cast a Team Vote, if you’re a wireless subscriber simply type the name of the NHL team you want to vote for into a new text message on your cell phone and send this message to the short code 81812. Standard text message charges apply. The Team Vote feature is only available if you are voting via text message, it is not available for online voting. If you are not a wireless subscriber, you can vote via the internet at http://www.vote.nhl.com.

Yes, I cannot believe the team vote option.

And this does seem more like American Idol than anything…