TheDevilMadeMe
Registered User
- Eligibility
- Any person who spent a significant portion of his career playing as a defenseman is eligible
- Players will be judged only on their accomplishments as hockey players
- A player's accomplishments at his secondary position may be taken into account; it is up to the list maker to determine how to evaluate such players
- Players currently active are eligible, but should be ranked based on what they already did
- Preliminary Discussion Thread
- Anyone may participate in this thread, even if he does not plan on taking part in the voting phase
- Any defenseman may be discussed
- Posters are encouraged to share information about defensemen in this thread and to take information shared into account when constructing their own lists
- Brief comparisons between players are permitted, but detailed cases and debates should be saved for Round 2 of Voting.
- Please do NOT rank players outright in the preliminary thread.
- Voting
- Round 1
- All participants submit a list of 80 defensemen ranked in order
- All eras MUST be considered, and consideration should be given to both NHL and non-NHL players
- To make it easier to aggregate the submitted lists, please list players using their most commonly used name; e.g. Bobby Orr, not Robert Gordon Orr; Red Kelly, not Leonard Kelly
- Lists may be submitted via email to [email protected] or via PM to me. Excel format preferred, but not required.
- Deadline for list submission is Oct 15; this thread will remain open until the deadline
- Players will be assigned a point value on the list based on ranking
- Players will be awarded 80 points for a 1st place vote down to 1 point for a 80th place vote
- An aggregate list of the top 80 defensemen will be compiled ranking them in order of the most total points
- Participants MUST submit a list in Round 1 to be eligible for Round 2
- Round 2
- The top 10 ranked players from the aggregate list will be posted in a thread
- Players will be listed in alphabetical order to avoid creating bias
- Player merits and rankings will be open for discussion and debate for a period of five (5) days. Administrators may extend the discussion period if it remains active.
- Final voting will occur for two (2) days, by email.
- Top 5 players will be added to the list
- Final results will be posted and the process repeated for the next 5 places with remaining players until a list of 60 defensemen is obtained
- The number of players available for discussion at once may increase from 10 as we move down the list, depending on the closeness of the aggregate list put together in Round 1
- Round 1
- Quality Assurance
- Lists will be subject to an evaluation process
- The submitter of a questionable list will be given an opportunity to defend or justify any selection under question or to correct errors and resubmit.
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