Players will be judged only on their performance as hockey players
Currently active players are eligible, but will be judged only on what they have already accomplished
No, I don’t know what to do with Connor McDavid either
Preliminary Discussion Thread
Anyone may participate in this thread, even if he or she does not intend to take part in the voting round
Posters are encouraged to share information about players in this thread and to take information shared into account when constructing their own lists
For instance, did you know Roy McGiffin was in the fruit business during the off-season? Not that I am implying that he should be ranked on the viability of his Californian fruit
Brief comparisons between players are permitted, but detailed cases and debates should be saved for the voting round
Please do not rank players outright in the preliminary thread
Voting
Round 1
All participants submit a list of 120 players ranked in order, with all positions included
All eras are to be considered
To make it easier to aggregate the submitted lists, please list players using their most commonly used name; e.g. Tim Thomas, not Timothy Thomas Jr.; Justin Williams, not Justinus Septum Williams
Lists may be submitted via PM to quoipourquoi
Deadline for list submission is September 30
Players will be assigned a point value on each list based on ranking. A 1st-place vote is equal to 120 points. A 2nd-place vote is equal to 119 points. A 120th-place vote is equal to 1 point.
An aggregate list will be compiled ranking them in order of the most total points
Participants must submit a list in Round 1 to be eligible to vote in 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 days. Administrators may extend the discussion period if it remains active
Final voting will occur for two days via PM. A 1st-Place vote is equal to 10 points. A 2nd-Place vote is equal to 9 points. A 10th-Place vote is equal to 1 point.
The top-5 players will be added to the final list, unless people start booing because of a clear break in voting after the top-4 players, at which point we might agree to hold someone back for the next round because I easily succumb to peer pressure and will go along with whatever you want
The exception is in Vote 1 in which only 4 players (#1-4) will be added and in Vote 21 in which only 1 player will be added (#100) because we like to do things arbitrarily for dramatic effect
The process repeats until we have a list of 100 players
Failure to retain an acceptable level of discussion may lead to an abbreviated list of no fewer than 25 players
Quality Assurance
Lists will be subject to an evaluation process
This is not meant to deter participation; we merely want to ensure that voters are considering all eras of hockey's history
The complete voting record of every participant will be released at the end of the project
Any attempts to derail a discussion thread with disrespect to old-time hockey will be met with frontier justice
We encourage interpositional discussion (forward vs. defenseman vs. goaltender) as opposed to the safer and somewhat redundant intrapositional debates. Overemphasizing a tired single-position argument like, I don’t know, Harvey/Lidstrom, will only be briefly tolerated before one is asked to move on to a less tedious comparison.
Take a drink when someone mentions the number of hockey registrations in a given era
Finish your drink when someone mentions that goaltenders cannot be compared to skaters
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