A sensible Hall of Fame ballot
River Avenue Blues —
... Oftentimes, when BBWAA voters release their Hall of Fame ballot choices, they do with little regard for common-sense analysis or even baseball reality. Ken Davidoff, however, offers up an exception. In a thorough blog post about his ballot, Davidoff explores how he has come to understand statistical tools and how he arrived at his ballot choices. If only every voter was so enlightened… ...
Sunday Morning Reading
Major League Jerk —
... . I am a Long Island boy and Newsday is THE paper here. It is also a good sports news organization that has produced Tony Kornheiser, Peter King, Jon Heyman and Tom Verducci to name a few. This morning Ken Davidoff posted his Hall of Fame ballot. What interests me here is how he admits to flip-flopping in the three years he has had a ballot because of acquiring more baseball knowledge and his use of advanced statistical analysis to help evaluate Hall of Famers. It is good stuff and a reminder to the stat geeks (looking at you Fetch and Nick P) that instead of being a ...
Take one red pill before voting
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
Posted by Rob Neyer It's Hall of Fame season, during which a fair number of voters publish their choices and then smart alecks like me make fun of them. Oh, but that was in 2008. Among my New Year's resolutions: no more making fun of my fellow BBWAA members. In 2009, I will instead offer praise to colleagues like Ken Davidoff, whose Hall of Fame ballot mirrors almost precisely my own (if I had one). But what I really like about Davidoff's ballot is that he actually seems to have thought about it, and realizes that it's an ongoing process that will be informed not by mob ...
