Okay - latest iteration of the Hall of Fame monitor. To clarify, the Hall of Fame monitor is not my subjective rankings...rather, it is solely a measurement tool to rank Hall of Fame
worthiness or likliness based on actual past selections, with numerical weight assigned to input data. A lot of my rankings I've posted have been tied to this idea, which is an attempt to rank while and also being tied to the Hall of Fame "definition" of greatness. So this is, in a way, an objective measure...not of greatness but of the Hall voters definition of greatness. The true test of it is: how far down the list can you go before your Hall of Fame criteria differs from actual Hall of Fame results assuming you are applying the exact same formula to every single player? The only thing that matters here is a consistent "Yes/No" based on the score.
I was able to grow the list to
52 players before running into Joe Namath at #53, a Hall of Famer who doesn't hit the required scores (f*ck you, New York media) or a guy who hits the required scores but isn't in the Hall of Fame. After Namath, you get to Benny Friedman and Jimmy Conzleman at 59/60, though those two are old-timers with some murky information (I don't have Conzleman's passer rating, and I believe he was elected also for his coaching/ownership.)
Anyway, this will be the end of the Hall of Fame adjusting, as I think this model is as close as you can get to measuring the all of the input data and spitting out whether or not the player is in Hall of Fame territory. Previously, Warren Moon and George Blanda were very far down the list, so I looked at why this happened and created another measure called "Moon Score" which allowed me to give some more weight to when a player has the longevity and the pro bowl selections but is being underranked for long-term excellence. It sounds easy, but remember, when you apply this to some, you apply to all, so they had to leapfrog 10-15 players each, and those guys weren't rewarded as much by the formula, and the the other 37 Hall of Famers on the list were relatively unaffected by this adjustment, besides some a few small flips and the notable change at the top (Montana/Manning.)
Actual Hall of Famers are in gold; active players are in blue (and bold blue for retired but not eligible yet.) I also adjusted the cutoff to 10 just because it seems more logical.
I might create a thread on the main board...wanted to test it out in this thread first...I think as a HoF monitor, it's a finished product. As an actual ranker...the debate never ends.
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