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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

The Tiered Hall of Fame Plaque Room

By Tangotiger, 11:15 AM

Patriot highlights something that we’ve discussed in the past (I think back at Fanhome) about a tiered (Pyramidial) Hall of Fame (Plaque Room).  I don’t remember who originated the idea, but I like it.  The good thing is that if every you think that there are too many players in the Plaque Room, you add another tier to the Pyramid, and adjust all the numbers.  Say we want an Inner Circle Top of Pyramid Plaque Room of 25 players.  And you want a Penultimate Level of say 50 players.  And then a third from the top of 100 players.  And a bottom level of 200 players.  You can vote Tim Raines into the first level (everyone starts at the first level), and as Patriot noted, leave that for the writers to do.  You can even lower the acceptance level to 50%.  Or, as I like to do, ask the writers to vote “Yes, No, Ask me next year”, so that a Dwight Evans can continue to be on the ballot.  Once he’s in, you can have another committee decide if in one year the player can go to the second level.  And in 3 years if they can go to the third level.  And 5 years later if he can reach the pinnacle.  And if the pinnacle gets too big (say now pushing 30 players), create a fifth level, and move players up as appropriate.

As Patriot noted, whatever we do or so is irrelevant since we will never affect change here.  That position is not important for our purposes for discussion purposes.  Discussion as in discuss, not as in “this s-cks because...”.  You can take those posts elsewhere.  This thread is for classroom discussion purposes.

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