Capsule Explanation of Entry Standards and Their Effects
There are 4 different standards that can get a player inducted into the HOF using this method.
1) First Ballot Standard
Players who are entered into the Hall of Fame by the default OOTP settings are given a First Ballot Screening. If the score (normalized for hitters and pitchers) of the Black Ink + Gray Ink AND the combined score of the HOFm + HOFs are BOTH above the HOF average of all the players inducted in the previous years, that player is inducted on the Fisrt Ballot Standard. No other screenings are used for any hitters before all hitters that were inducted by the OOTP default standards are given a First Ballot Screening. This also applies to pitchers. No pitchers are given Standard/Veteran Screenings before all pitchers that have earned a First Ballot Screening are given their First Ballot Screening.
When a player is inducted via a FBS, that player, by virtue of his numbers being sufficient for a FBS induction, raises the standard that will be applied to players who receive a FBS in subsequent years. This is not a result of any adjustment I do seperate from the numbers. It is simply the result of the math. Adding scores that are above the old averages results in the new averages being higher.
2) Standard Standard
If a player going through the normal screening process has ANY score (Black Ink, Gray Ink, HOFm, OR HOFs) above the average of any category of the players that were inducted in the previous years, that player is inducted by the Standard Standard.
A player may have more than one score above the previous average, but it is not a requirement.
When a player is entered in this fashion, I make note of which category, or categories, he exceeded the old average(s).
So, any player entered through the Standard Standard will raise the average in AT LEAST one category for subsequent classes.
3) Veteran Standard
There is no priority given to the order of screenings in regard to the Standard Standard and Veteran Standard. Whatever player has bubbled up to the top of the list is screened. If he has been retired for 20 years, he is eligible to enter on the Veteran Standard.
As with the First Ballot Standard, the combined Ink scores and combined HOF scores are used to determine entry. If BOTH of those scores are CLOSE to the Hall averages, that player gets in on the Veteran Standard. If the player has a score in ANY category that is above the Hall average, that player, even though he has been retired for 20 years and is eligible to enter on the Veteran Standard, is considered to have entered on the Standard Standard.
When a player enters on the Veteran Standard, he brings down the averages in ALL 4 categories (and, by definition, the combined score categories) and, thus, makes it easier for players in subsequent classes to enter via the Standard Standard.
However, while a player entering on the VS makes it easier for subsequent players to enter on the SS, when a player enters on the VS he is actually raising the VS for future classes. There is a numeric method to this. It actually works out cooler than I thought it did until I completed the previous posted HOF. There is nothing subjective about how the numbers are applied, here.
4) Leader Boards
When no one on the spreadsheets meet the criteria for Standard or Veteran inductions, I go to the Leader Boards. It is here that the HOF can get "floor breakers."
A "floor breaker" is a player who has insufficient scores to enter via the SS or VS, but is given enshrinement based on a leader board position. When a "floor breaker" enters, he lowers the standards in ALL categories for future induction classes. He also lowers the VS of induction at this same time.
Not all players that enter from the leader boards are floor breakers, but all players that are floor breakers enter from the leader boards.
Aside from the Inaugural Class, there have been no leader board entrants, as of yet, in this Hall.
Last edited by VanillaGorilla; 02-18-2013 at 02:46 AM.
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