I’m Back and So Is My Dorky Hall of Fame Ballot Tracker

December 5th, 2011 by leokitty

I’ve been AWOL for quite some time for a variety of reasons but mostly because I have been very busy at work this year. I couldn’t stay away during Hall Voting Season, though, so my ballot tracker is back and so am I. And I’m not gonna lie, I will probably need help keeping it up to date more this year than in the past, so anything you find please contact me via the comments here, Twitter (I’m @leokitty) or just send me an email at lunserschutz at gmail.com.

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Here’s the link to the tracker itself — I’ll be putting up a link for it in the header as well in case this post gets buried.

As a warning, if you tag along on Twitter I post a lot about my cats and other non-baseball stuff.

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6 comments on this post.

  1. Joseph L.:

    January 9th, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    Any way you can add in a sum column for the total number of votes cast per sportswriter? It might give away a trend…

  2. Joseph L.:

    January 9th, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    Oh, and thank you for the tracker in the first place.

  3. leokitty:

    January 9th, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    Joseph, I’ll do so when I get home from work this evening. Keep an eye out.

  4. Nick E. P.:

    January 10th, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    Awesome spreadsheet! Thanks for compiling. Just one question: How did you get info on votes cast by individual sportswriters? Is the data based on what you’ve read about them (e.g., appearances on TV, articles they published in their local newspapers sharing their picks)?

  5. leokitty:

    January 10th, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    Nick,

    I check around major media outlets that I know do ballots (the NY Times doesn’t, but the Tribune does, etc) and have set up a bunch Google alerts for certain keywords. Even then I still miss some, like a lot of the Twitter links, but people send them to me. So it’s pretty much from scrounging around the internet and having other people pitch in.

    Last year I started including backlinks in a column so it doesn’t look like a “take my word for it” thing.

  6. RussNeverSleeps:

    January 11th, 2012 at 11:33 pm

    2012 HoF Ballot for Jeff Blair, Toronto Globe and Mail

    Tm Raines
    Mark McGwire
    Larry Walker

    Source: Prime Time Sports, Sportsnet 590, January 10, 2012, 4pm Hour (about the 3 minute mark)
    http://pmd.fan590.com/podcasts/pts/PTS-2012-01-10-4-pm.mp3

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