Is anyone interested in doing a community list?

I’m not going to lie, the whole sock puppets, recounts, ballot stuffing thing was really annoying, but the list also brought up a lot of good conversation and perspective on overall community prospect opinion. I hope now that site traffic seems to have dwindled somewhat from when the lists were being made last year that there will be less interference. Even if not though, I’d rather have a slightly flawed list than no list at all.

Hey any chance we could do the list from the bottom up? Start with a whole lot of guys as the cantidates for the 100th prospects and then go forward? I know it is different but I think it would be interesting. It would make the list get MORE interesting to people as it goes along instead of less. I’ll participate either way but I just like to throw out new ideas.

however, let’s start at overall prospect #1.

And yes, while the “suspense” of starting at the bottom would be fun, I think it would be virtually impossible to make it work.

In terms of ground rules, would this be a list to identify the best overall prospect (i.e., best tools / highest ceiling regardless of age, etc.) or would you be focusing on the best bet(s) to have an impact in 2009?

I think it might be cool to do both…would be interesting to see how different those lists turn out. Of course, it’s also extra work. I’m willing to help but travel constantly for work, so my availability to pitch in would be sporadic at best…

Lets get started

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Perhaps we should limit it to about top 50, so that the discussion doesn’t peter out and get boring.

I am looking for some regular, respected site community members to help myself and pinstripes run the polls. Adding 1 or 2 more guys would help ensure that everything moves in a timely, concise manner. If you are interested please post and I will let you know ASAP.

GO COLE HAMELS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t wait for the game tonight. Hamels vs. Bilz is what it’s all about.

but there have been a lot of supporting studies that have shown that when informed people are surveryed on future predicitions, they tend to predict the “market” better then most standard predictive measures…. so there is def. some value, even if people feel the list doesnt look right, or there is something stupid going on.

I’m just wondering if the process would not be better done by leaving comments or (+1) for the candidates.

I think you could monitor the ballot stuffing way better, and have more candidates to vote for and more informed voting.

 The thread would start with 10 or something posts with just the name, age,and stat line or something. Then anyone who wants to vote just posts a +1 as a reply for their choice.

Certainly this takes more time to get the results but I think it might be worthwhile.

You need a seperate email address and you have to wait a day to post… so yes it can be done, but thats quite a pain in the ass…. if you care that much about who should be ranked ahead of whom then i dunno what to say.

May I also suggest that we do not do runoffs, i think this is where the ballot stuffing is most prone… If someone wins even its its close, lets just give it to that person and move on.

Again, the goal behind something like this is not to be scientific.. this isnt our personal list, this is a compilation of people who supposedly have at least a solid knowledge of prospects. Which in its own way has interesting aspects, and provides a different kind of list to that of the ones that we would each make individually or that the experts make.

SO i think if we take that attitude and dont cry everytime we think a certian prospect got ripped, it will be much more enjoyable.

This may postpone the lists for a while, but why not use John’s lists as a base? For example, for the #1 poll, use the 30 #1 team prospects. Then, for the one that was chosen, put in that team’s #2. You always have 30 options in the poll, but that way you’ve also got a layout to follow a bit as well.

Just as suggestion, I know the other way has worked in the past too.

i will set it up similar to what was done in the past. if we want to tweak it beyond that then so be it.

i will say that physically counting the votes in a non poll format doesn’t seem feasible. hopefully, there won’t be any issues.

thx!