Community Prospect List Discussion (Con't)

I think now rather than later is the time, as most sites are starting their rankings.

I’m in favor of the overall Top 100 by the way. I don’t like the system of separating, and then voting for the pitcher/hitter. I think it arbitrarily makes you choose one of 2 options, that you might not have personally agreed should have been there in the first place…

I think the system of separating pitchers and hitters has its merits if one or a few people were doing rankings, but not in a community forum like we have, since there are so many different opinions.

I have run that the past few years. I would be interested in doing it again, but even more interested in doing it if I wouldn’t have to fly solo on it.

Keep the split hitter/pitcher list like last season, but tweak it so that it speeds up the overall list AND stops the situation where people don’t like either of the two candidates on the overall poll they can vote for. Here’s how we can do it: If the hitter or pitcher poll goes to a tie-breaker, and that tie-breaker ends up very close (55-45 or closer? something like that), then we list BOTH hitters/pitchers from the tie breaker together as a group to be voted on in the overall poll.

So if Tim Wheeler and Christian Yelich lets say end up in a close tie-breaker, where as it usually is, 40% really like Wheeler and Yelich not-so-much, 40% really like Yelich and Wheeler not-so-much, and 20% don’t like either, we don’t send just the winner to the overall poll, we send them both as a group to be voted on together. This way we don’t have the Yelich or Wheeler haters slowing things down, since neither really have majority support to go against a pitcher. Likely people will vote in Wheeler even if it means putting Yelich a little higher on the list than they’d prefer and vice versa.

If there is no tie-breaker, then obviously only one player will be sent to the overall poll waiting list. And if there is a clear winner of a tie-breaker, then that player will go to the overall poll waiting list as an individual.

I honestly think this will stop the situation where half the people don’t like either choice in a heads up overall poll, and end up picking the least cruddy player or end up making some type of strategic choice.

Edit: I do think the top 10 overall should be just done exclusively 1 at a time to make sure that is as accurate as possible and there probably won’t be many anti-votes that early.