Poll: Top Penguins of all time project -- interest?
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:56 pm
With an uncharacteristically long offseason on the horizon, I'm interested in doing a Penguin-centric project. With many prominent Penguins careers now in more or less the rear view mirror, I think it might be a good time to re-visit our history - recent and much further back - to formulate who the top Penguins of all time are.
The way I'd see the process going is...
1. I'll setup some general rules regarding eligibility (min. games played, etc.)
2.Then we have a preliminary discussion thread - a thread that will include no rankings, but is more to just put players out there for some high-level discussion. Anyone is welcome to participate...submit video evidence, anecdotal thoughts, newspaper excerpts, stats...whatever. The goal here is to cast a wide net around players that might be on the table for us. It's not to settle anything like "Was Player X better than Player Y" ...we'll get to that.
3. A panel of participants will volunteer (which is the nature of this thread, just to gauge that interest) a list of their Top X Penguins of all time based on their "current" feelings. No projection is given. It's based on what they did as of the day the list was submitted.
X is to be determined. I think anything between top 25 and top 50 Penguins of all time would be viable. If we were just content to do Top 25, then I'd ask for a list of your top 30 players. If we did top 40, I'd ask for a list of your top 50. If we did top 50, I'd ask for your top 60.
Players will be given a point value based on the order that they are in on the participants' lists. i.e. in a top 50 list, your first player is worth 50 points, second player is worth 49 points...50th player is worth 1 point.
I'd total the points and use that as our aggregate list.
4. The Top X (probably 5 to 7) players from the list will then be put into a discussion thread. That thread is where we'll really drill down on those 5 to 7 players. This is where we begin to make cases for players or against players. This is where you want as much information as you can get out there.
At the end of a week, we'll do a vote. You'll send me a list of the order in which you believe those top 5-7 players belong. I'll tally up those votes and barring any irregularities we'll take the top 3, possibly 4 players in voting. They go on to our final list.
Then the players that did not make the final list from the first vote are added to the next chunk of players from our preliminary list to get us back to a 5 to 7 player chunk...and we repeat the process until we reach our desired number of players on the final list.
If done correctly, I have no doubt that it would be most the comprehensive and accurate list that's ever been created.
Many of you who were apart of different project long ago - the All-Time Draft - may recall that..this isn't that because there's no roster building element to it. But there are some minor similarities. https://www.letsgopens.com/viewtopic.php?t=60027 (can you believe that was 12 years ago?).
Happy to answer any questions here...not offended if there's no interest because most people don't find hockey history as fascinating as I do...
The way I'd see the process going is...
1. I'll setup some general rules regarding eligibility (min. games played, etc.)
2.Then we have a preliminary discussion thread - a thread that will include no rankings, but is more to just put players out there for some high-level discussion. Anyone is welcome to participate...submit video evidence, anecdotal thoughts, newspaper excerpts, stats...whatever. The goal here is to cast a wide net around players that might be on the table for us. It's not to settle anything like "Was Player X better than Player Y" ...we'll get to that.
3. A panel of participants will volunteer (which is the nature of this thread, just to gauge that interest) a list of their Top X Penguins of all time based on their "current" feelings. No projection is given. It's based on what they did as of the day the list was submitted.
X is to be determined. I think anything between top 25 and top 50 Penguins of all time would be viable. If we were just content to do Top 25, then I'd ask for a list of your top 30 players. If we did top 40, I'd ask for a list of your top 50. If we did top 50, I'd ask for your top 60.
Players will be given a point value based on the order that they are in on the participants' lists. i.e. in a top 50 list, your first player is worth 50 points, second player is worth 49 points...50th player is worth 1 point.
I'd total the points and use that as our aggregate list.
4. The Top X (probably 5 to 7) players from the list will then be put into a discussion thread. That thread is where we'll really drill down on those 5 to 7 players. This is where we begin to make cases for players or against players. This is where you want as much information as you can get out there.
At the end of a week, we'll do a vote. You'll send me a list of the order in which you believe those top 5-7 players belong. I'll tally up those votes and barring any irregularities we'll take the top 3, possibly 4 players in voting. They go on to our final list.
Then the players that did not make the final list from the first vote are added to the next chunk of players from our preliminary list to get us back to a 5 to 7 player chunk...and we repeat the process until we reach our desired number of players on the final list.
If done correctly, I have no doubt that it would be most the comprehensive and accurate list that's ever been created.
Many of you who were apart of different project long ago - the All-Time Draft - may recall that..this isn't that because there's no roster building element to it. But there are some minor similarities. https://www.letsgopens.com/viewtopic.php?t=60027 (can you believe that was 12 years ago?).
Happy to answer any questions here...not offended if there's no interest because most people don't find hockey history as fascinating as I do...