Ballots And Induction Limits

[LWPD]

Once the balloting process begins each game year will be covered set by set. As promoters go over the credentials and history of the candidates...a great many of those available for induction will become attractive.

Yet scarcity tends to reveal true value. Should the voting system introduce a scarcity factor by limiting the number of 'induction attempts' each promoter is allowed to cast in an effort to force voters to 'pick and chose' only the best of the best? Or should each ballot be free form with no pre-imposed standards?

Vote and discuss why or why not on limits? If yes...what would be a good formula to use to calculate the max number of affirmative votes for each given ballot?

[Dragon Breath]

I posted the following in another thread, but I think it has some relevance to this discussion.

Another way to set up the election is to create a pool of retired wreslers, and allow each promoter to vote for a number of wreslers in the pool.

For example, each promoter could vote for three wrestlers, with a first place vote worth 3 points, a 2nd place vote worth two points, and a third place vote worth one point.

At the end of a month (or a week, or however long makes sense) the top two wrestlers would be enshrined to the Hall of Fame, and the process starts over again.

Here's a link to a website that uses a very similar system to "do over" the Baseball Hall Fame, in case anyone is interested.

www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/hall_of_merit/

This also has the benefit of making the process a lot more managable in the early years. It will allow us some time to better shape the Hall of Fame.

If we did something along the lines of limiting the first years class to two or three wrestlers, we can start out easy. Maybe guys like Dragonmaster and Bounty Hunter are Hall of Famers.....maybe they are not. I like the idea of getting guys like Chaos and Thantos enshrined before giving serious consideration to wrestlers who are more of a borderline case.

[Wildfire]

If we're using the baseball method of vote (75% and you're in) we could adopt the other rules as well... if you get, say, more than 20% of the votes, you get stay on the ballot, up to 10 times.

[Chewey]

I like Wildfire's idea.

[theringmaster]

Me 2! Wildfire's idea I like.

[steefposton]

3rds for Wildfire's idea.

[GalactiKing]

Wildfire's idea sounds great.

[jefft]

Go with Wildfire's idea.

[Mike M]

I believe the threshold for continued inclusion in the Baseball HOF is 10%.... and I think that 10% would be a perfect threshold for the COTG HOF as well.

[Mike M]

I also believe that you should be able to vote for as many (or as few) candidates as you feel are deserving. After the 2109 year, Alpha Force, Chaos, Matador, Janus, Vector One, Soldier of Fortune, Heracles and Anaxis all left the GWF or CPC and retired or went to Dimension X (I might have missed someone, but it's close enough for this discussion. Assuming we count the X'ers as 'retired', there are 8 eligible candidates (not counting any carryovers from previous years.

If I want to vote for all 8, then I should be able to. If I want to vote for none of them, I should be allowed to cast a 'blank' ballot.

This becomes even more important when candidates are carried over from one year to the next. By allowing candidates to stay on the ballot for multiple (say 10) years, it is possible that if we are limited to 4 votes per year, we would be eliminating deserving candidates. Conversely, if we force people to vote for 4 candidates, some undeserving candidates will make it in.