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An Idea - CW Hall of Fame

ma1978

International Debutant
The baseball hall for fame, while parochial, is generally considered the most storied half of fame in sports for reasons of history, quality of debate, selectivity (1.5% of , etc. it’s admission process is quite unique.

- vote taken by all accredited writers on baseball with 75% needed for admission
- people are on the ballot for 10 years allowing for a long debate. It’s not uncommon for people to start
- they fall off if they get less than 5%

Because of the occasional frustrations with the mainstream voters, one of the more intelligent baseball websites has a parallel HOF.


Any interest in doing the same of CW? Some ideas that can be iterated on.

For players that have already, start ballots by each era (let’s say pre 1920 retirement date, 1920-1939, 1940-1960, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s

players get at least 5 votes to be nominated

for the nominated players, 75% votes to get in

once you go through the eras, anyone with over 33% stays on the ballot

run votes every 6 months for returning players and new retirees

any thoughts?
 

Spark

Global Moderator
Cricket already has plenty of traditions for recognising the greats of the game, it doesn't need to go around importing others.
 

Patience and Accuracy+Gut

State Vice-Captain
In this topic, we have a really long history at least as long as any sport. Idk anything about baseball to speak on. But I think we should have at least 5 or more HoF from pre-Test as well. Let’s just not restrict to test cricket which basically began in 1877.
 

Adorable Asshole

International Regular
Cricket already has plenty of traditions for recognising the greats of the game, it doesn't need to go around importing others.
Stop this xenophobia. The traditions are extremely anglocentric and to make cricket better we need to shatter this parochialism.
 

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
 

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
 

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