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Old 10-17-2012, 07:53 AM   #38
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With initial entrants, we see a "floor" around 6. Lots of entrants hovering around that line. In 1945 the floor broke with plots 23, 24, 25, and 26. we then see lots of plots clumping around the 4 line.

The floor broke again with DeLancey and Tenace entering at plots 63 and 65, respectively. Hartnett is not a floor breaker, but he is slanting it downward. Following this second break we will be seeing newer plots clumping significantly under the four line, just as we saw a shift of new plots from the 6 line to the 4 line previously.

The players that post the 10 and above composites will still enter, but they won't come often enough to reverse the trend. Those players are the very special best of the best once in a decade types.

Over the next few classes we will see higher scores entering as there is a bit of a backlog now in qualified hitters to go along with the pitchers, but those hitters will run out quickly and we will see lower composites getting in and more floor breaking as the composite nears an average 4 by the 2012 class.
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