HOF voting change

[tycobb420]

What changes would you guys like to see?

I always thought writers should be able to vote for as many people as they want. I read an argument from a writer that said the 75% threshold should be lowered to 60%. He said that would only change the Hall membership by 1 (now it would be 2 and I am not counting the guys that topped 60% this year in the equation--other than Morris who fell off the ballot). The other player was Gil Hodges.

 

[Mitchrapp]

What changes would you guys like to see?

I always thought writers should be able to vote for as many people as they want. I read an argument from a writer that said the 75% threshold should be lowered to 60%. He said that would only change the Hall membership by 1 (now it would be 2 and I am not counting the guys that topped 60% this year in the equation--other than Morris who fell off the ballot). The other player was Gil Hodges.

I'm not sure voting as much as you want would help matters with our current voters who decide someone is not worthy of a first ballot, and ones who vote for shit.

75% is fine.

I actually would like to see the voters get a once over by some committee to get rid of the ones who don't vote for guys like Maddox but do vote for Todd Jones.

In fact not every player should be on the hof list. Narrow it down big time so the Todd Jones's of the world aren't on it in the first place.

Lastly, I don't really care :nod: Kind of a joke these days.

 

[spockmaster]

I would leave the threshold at 75%, remove the player limit on the ballot so that voters can vote for as many players as they wish, and expand the voting from just morons in the BBWAA to include qualified broadcasters, managers, ex-players/current HoFers, industry people (maybe veteran scouts, etc), and revoke voting rights from BBWAA people who barely covered baseball (some of the writers cover other sports, etc) or have proven they're too fucking stupid to vote properly (like Gurnick and whatever dumbfucks voted for guys like jaque jones).

I would also trim the ballot so that guys like JT Snow and Jaque Jones arent on it, and also bump up the threshold for minimum votes to stay on the ballot to like 10 or 15% (or maybe even 20% after a certain amt of time on the ballot).


Frankly, I would also go back for the last 15 years and put a few deserving players back on the ballot for a short time who got fucked by the old system, like Whitaker.

 

[tomdalton22]

I think they should allow them to vote up to 10 that were already on the ballot and then up to 5 for the guys that are first timers on the ballot.

 

[tomdalton22]

I would leave the threshold at 75%, remove the player limit on the ballot so that voters can vote for as many players as they wish, and expand the voting from just morons in the BBWAA to include qualified broadcasters, managers, ex-players/current HoFers, industry people (maybe veteran scouts, etc), and revoke voting rights from BBWAA people who barely covered baseball (some of the writers cover other sports, etc) or have proven they're too fucking stupid to vote properly (like Gurnick and whatever dumbfucks voted for guys like jaque jones).

I would also trim the ballot so that guys like JT Snow and Jaque Jones arent on it, and also bump up the threshold for minimum votes to stay on the ballot to like 10 or 15% (or maybe even 20% after a certain amt of time on the ballot).


Frankly, I would also go back for the last 15 years and put a few deserving players back on the ballot for a short time who got fucked by the old system, like Whitaker.

All good ideas. I really like the one in bold.