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Goaltender
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- Eligibility
- 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
- Preliminary Discussion Thread
- Anyone may participate in this thread, even if he or she or they do 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 Alexei Kovalev is a pilot? He even convinced his wife to let him buy his first airplane by pretending to be interested in getting a motorcycle. Unrelated to this project, but when forming a roster to take on a team of space aliens, you may want Kovalev as a healthy scratch in case you need to fly away in a UFO
- 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 220 players ranked in order, with all positions included
- Players who were ranked in the previous top-100 project are to be included in your list, provided you believe them to be among the top-220 players of all-time
- Previous participants may re-use their 120-player list from 2018 and merely add an additional 100 players
- Both new and previous participants may use the ranked players from the 2019 project as their 1-100 and merely add an additional 120 players
- 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.; Corey Perry, not Cornelius Worm Perry
- Lists may be submitted via PM to quoipourquoi
- Deadline for list submission is December 31
- Players will be assigned a point value on each list based on ranking. A 1st-place vote is equal to 220 points. A 2nd-place vote is equal to 219 points. A 220th-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-15 ranked players from the aggregate list who were not ranked in the previous project 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. Unranked players receive 0 points.
- The top-5 players will be added to the final list, unless there is a clear break (1.5 points per ballots cast) in voting after the top-3 players. Note that this is a modification of a rule from the previous project, which mandated the break occur after the top-4 players and did not have a set number of points to trigger the rule
- We will add players that tie for 5th, and their ranks will be reflective of most 1st place votes, 2nd place votes, 3rd place votes, etc. This was not a rule from the previous project but rather was implemented following the Lalonde/Yzerman tie.
- We will not play catch-up after adding just 3-4 players or adding 6-7 players. The subsequent vote will still be for the top-5 players. Because of this, Round 2 may last slightly longer or slightly shorter than the projected 20 weeks
- 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
- Round 1
- 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. Alternatively, you may be subjected to getting fired out of a cannon. Towards the moon
- 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 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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