Does anyone know how this update will work? Will each world have their own hall? Will owners or admin get to vote who gets in?

No details have been provided.

they have said each world gets they own hall though

We shall see soon enough

Hey guys,

Here are some details on how the HOF is going to work. I'll answer any other questions you might have throughout the day and the coming weeks until we release it.

Each individual world will have their own HOF. We are not implementing an "All Worlds HOF" just yet. HOF eligibility will be retroactive for all seasons in every world. So players that played in season 10, retired, and qualify in a world currently in season 15 will be eligible to be nominated. Voting is all user based and a player needs 20 votes to be inducted into the HOF.

Eligibility for the HOF is two fold, there are automatic nominations that the AI processes. These players are automatically eligible to be voted into the HOF (criteria below). Users will get to nominate players that fit the criteria listed below as well. Users can nominate any player that played on his franchise at any point during his career.

Criteria is as follows:

Auto-nominations-
Position Players: 7+ Silver Slugger, 10+ Gold Gloves, 7+ All Star Appearances, 3+ MVPs, 500+ HRs, or 3,000+ Hs

Pitchers: 7+ All Star Appearances, 3+ Fireman of the Year, 3+ Cy Young Awards, 300+ wins, 3000+ Ks, or 500+ SVs

User nominations-
Position players: 10+ years of ML experience with 400+ PA per season.
Relief pitchers: 10+ years of ML experience with 50+ G per season.
Starting pitchers: 10+ years of ML experience with 150+ IP per season.

How long will a player hold his eligibility? With owner turnover, voting certainly could change over the years.

And when will users nominate players? Again, with turnover, players can get "lost" after 5 seasons.

A player is eligible to be nominated 5 times. If he is nominated 5 times and he does not get voted in then he will lose his eligibility.

The nomination period starts on the first budget day and lasts until the Rule 5 Draft. The voting period starts on the same day as the Rule 5 Draft and ends on the first prep. for regular season day.

Are those players that are eligible to be "user-nominated" every year going to pop up in the inbox or is it something we're going to have to search for every year?

How many people typically vote for the player awards (on average)? 20 seems like a lot if it's only based on actual user votes. Some leagues may not even have 20 owners vote once the newness wears off.

Then you need to find worlds that have more owners who care, hart....

EDIT: 20 < 2/3 of the owners in a world. If a shoe-in HOFer didn't get 20 votes, that'd be my cue to leave the world.

Quote: Originally posted by iain on 1/13/2010Then you need to find worlds that have more owners who care, hart.... EDIT: 20 < 2/3 of the owners in a world.  If a shoe-in HOFer didn't get 20 votes, that'd be my cue to leave the world.

Well, one of the better leagues I'm in has protested people not having 25 man ML rosters and not taking care of their minors because it might allow an owner to save $1 million, but they are allowing an owner to give another owner over $2 million for nothing so he can transfer some money to his prospect payroll. I'm thinking you may be right...

i'd like to nominate hawk walker.

you know, at first, i wasn't that excited about the HOF, but now it seems exciting.

I'm looking more forward to it now myself. Since the owners are deciding, it seems like it will add something. Before I was afraid it would be like the MVP where the candidates are generated by SIMMY and that was that.

All of the HOF related content is in standalone pages. You won't have to search for eligible players you can just navigate to the page and they will be presented in a list. The same goes for voting.

The HOF gallery is also a standalone page where you can view all of the inductees by season, position, and franchise. Complete with a plaque, award history, and career stats.

If we need to adjust the amount of votes it takes to get inducted we can do that very easily. We want everyone to participate in this and there isn't a ton to do during Spring Training so why not vote?