As the Circle of Greats project approaches the final weekly voting rounds, I invite your feedback on:
(a) how those final rounds should be handled; and
(b) what our next HHS “project” might be
More after the jump.
Here’s my plan for the remaining weekly voting rounds.
The columns at the right showing counts by WAR range are the number of players with the indicated career WAR who will become eligible in that birth year. Those player counts are based on the proposed criteria below for COG eligibility for the group whose careers straddled the 19th and 20th centuries.
(a) played majority of career games since 1901; or
(b) played majority of seasons and 40% of career games since 1901
Based on the above and assuming that players above 80 WAR are likely COGers, any holdovers will probably need to be elected by round 113 or in any open rounds following round 120 (eligibility for open rounds will be remaining holdovers ONLY).
I do invite your feedback on the proposed schedule of future voting rounds, and on the eligibility criteria for players to be included on ballots for these rounds. And, if you have some ideas on future “group projects” that we might pursue, please suggest these as well.
