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Sunday, January 01, 2012
Rebooted Hall Of Fame
If you follow sci-fi or comic book movies, you know what I’m talking about here. Sometimes, the weight of history is too much for the mythology to survive into the next generation. Bad decisions don’t need to be propogated or respected. Do we need to follow Batman’s Clooney, Schwarzenengger, and Schumacher, or can we just start over with the Frank Miller inspired version, with Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan?
You get a reboot.
My rules for the Hall of Fame is that it’s based on birth year, when the player turns 45 (and if he’s still active, then so be it… worked fine for Gordie Howe, Mario Lemieux and Guy Lafleur… an active-playing Hall of Famer), and he remains on the ballot for at most ten years. Each year, you have ten new players nominated (that is, the ten best players of the new birth year), and the top ten players of the previous ballot carrying over (so we always have twenty players on the ballot, except for the inaugural year). Every ballot is an ordered ballot, and must have ten names. The top two each ballot gets elected the Hall Of Fame. It’s an elect-2 system.
There’s going to be two groups, one that starts with birth year 1931, and then we’ll have another one for pre-1931. Why 1931? Well, it’s the first year where you have an over-abundance of qualified players, following a dearth of under-qualified players. (It also gives us some breathing room with the Negro League stars.) I’ve studied it, and it’s going to work. I’ll show it next time.
Anyway, we start with imagining this is the end of 1976, and players born in 1931, and here are the ten players on the 1977 ballot:
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