Hall of Fame and what the qualifications are

With the departure of the member who was maintaining the blog came the erasure of everything on the old blog. That means the HOF went with it. With that said, we will have a Hall of Fame. I have been searching through the forums and other worlds blogs to see their Hall of Fames. I say we can do better. But for us to do better we have to start from the beginning.

Who should vote on who belongs in the Hall of Fame?

1. Everyone/team will have an equal vote

Who is eligible for the Hall of Fame?

1. Any player who retires becomes immediately eligible for the Hall of Fame if he has at least 10 years expirence with at least 5 years of ML expirence.
2. The Hall of Fame committee will vote, any player receiving at least 70% of the voting will be inducted into the HOF.
3. There shall be no minimum number of players to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, along with no maximum number of players. If no player garners enough votes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, then there shall be no inductions that year.
4. A player shall remain on the ballot for a total of 3 years, provided that they garner at least one vote.
5. For years one through four, we will have to project the ML stats out for at least 5 years by ourselves. WIS only shows their stats for the first year of the world, regardless if the player has played for 15 years and has 10 years ML expirence. With that said, I believe that it is each voters own opinion on how they project it out. That will make it very interesting on who gets in and why. It should make for some very good chats.
   

Are there any "special" rules?

Yes, they are:

1. No player can be taken out of the HOF, except in extreme cases. I don't know what that extreme case would be, but if someone feels so strongly that a player should be taken out then a review of what the reason is will be taken at that time. Extreme cases are NOT: The player should be taken out because this is not the really good hall of fame, the player shoulld be taken out because I don't want him there. The player garnered enough votes to be inducted, so he will stay based off of that. An extreme case would be something like, for some reason that the stats we saw were changed.
2. You are responsible for checking to make sure I have all of your players that are eligible that year. I haven't made any mistakes yet in my life, but I am almost positive that I will eventually. I would hate that I missed your player for the year, and he wasn't eligible anymore because of it. With that said, I do re-check the lists, but I am only human and might make a mistake; Especially with 32 teams to look through and 10 seasons. If you take the time to look at one team and check the work I do, then mistakes can be avoided.
   

I am mulling over a veterans commitee, but I don't know how that would work. If anyone has any ideas, please throw them out. For the time-being we have a lot of voting to do. We have seasons 1 - 10 to do. Currently I am working on season 1's list. When I get that done, I will post it for everyone's review. With this, I hope inhances our chats and livens up some debates. Everyone continue to have a great HBD season! More to come....