Based on the referendum results and previous ballots BBTF has already recommended the following be inducted:

Jeff Bagwell
Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Edgar Martinez
Mark McGwire
Mike Mussina
Mike Piazza
Tim Raines
Curt Schilling
Sammy Sosa
Alan Trammell
Larry Walker

That means Griffey is the only "new" player. I am curious to see how Edmonds would do on an empty ballot.

I would fully 100% support that result if it happened.

That means Griffey is the only "new" player. I am curious to see how Edmonds would do on an empty ballot.

I think he goes in on an empty ballot, but it would be interesting to see what he would do on a ballot with only 7 clear hofers on it, instead of this ballot.

Interesting that Trammell, widely viewed as a slam-dunk case on BTF (with far more support than in the BBWAA), only gets to 80 percent here. Just shows how horribly hard it is to get to 75% when the ballot is so stacked.

Seven electees! Yay consensus!

Poor Jeff Kent, though.

A majority here support Jeff Kent as seen in the referendum results but he can't get above 4% support on this ballot.

BBTF recommends 9 players for election: Jeff Bagwell, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Ken Griffey Jr, Mike Mussina, Mike Piazza, Tim Raines, Curt Schilling and Alan Trammell.

My ballot exactly. Looks like I need to change my handle to reflect my status as the prototypical BBTF poster.

Seven electees! Yay consensus!

Been hitting the eggnog?

DL,

This is my tally of the votes cast (counting Mike Webber):

Total Ballots Cast 75 75% threshold> 56.25
Sorted Full Name Sorted Votes

Ken Griffey Jr. 74
Jeff Bagwell 72
Mike Piazza 72
Barry Bonds 69
Roger Clemens 69
Tim Raines 68
Mike Mussina 65
Curt Schilling 61
Alan Trammell 60
Larry Walker 31
Edgar Martinez 29
Mark McGwire 27
Jim Edmonds 13
Sammy Sosa 10
Fred McGriff 5
Gary Sheffield 5
Jeff Kent 2
Nomar Garciaparra 1
Garret Anderson 0
Brad Ausmus 0
Luis Castillo 0
David Eckstein 0
Troy Glaus 0
Mark Grudzielanek 0
Mike Hampton 0
Trevor Hoffman 0
Jason Kendall 0
Mike Lowell 0
Lee Smith 0
Mike Sweeney 0
Billy Wagner 0
Randy Winn 0

Total ballots cast = 75

avg names per ballot 9.7733333333

voters with 10 names 69
voters with <10 names 6

My ballot was basically the first 10, so either I'm part of, or I'm result of the groupthink... hmmm... yea kent Hoffman and Wagner seem to be the big losers here. I doubt any of them get in if the ballot is not so stacked, but they would have cleared the 5%.

Good to see even BBTF can't unanimously elect anyone either.

That's astounding that we were able to get 9 players to 75% with a 10-man ballot limit. That's a scary level of consensus!

It would be interesting to see what would happen if you dropped everybody in #1 from the ballot. Griffey would obviously sail in - probably unanimously (I assume his one omission here was a strategic omission from a full ballot) - but I'd be curious to see what peoples' opinions really are of Jim Edmonds, Jeff Kent, Trevor Hoffman, Gary Sheffield, and others, with no excuses for NOT voting for them other than "I don't think he's a Hall-of-Famer".

I had McGwire and Sosa but omitted Mussina; otherwise, as the results.

I'm a little more appreciative of peak achievement than some others in this ballot, but McGwire and Sosa are OK per the referendum, I see, and I probably would have gone to Mussina as the eleventh on my own ballot. I don't know if it's groupthink; I just think there's still a ton of overqualified guys active on the ballot.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if you dropped everybody in #1 from the ballot. Griffey would obviously sail in - probably unanimously (I assume his one omission here was a strategic omission from a full ballot) - but I'd be curious to see what peoples' opinions really are of Jim Edmonds, Jeff Kent, Trevor Hoffman, Gary Sheffield, and others, with no excuses for NOT voting for them other than "I don't think he's a Hall-of-Famer".

That is why on my ballot I listed who I voted for, who I would vote for if given a chance, and who I would be more interested in having a prolonged discussion about, Kent and Edmonds make that last group. I'm one of Jim Edmonds biggest fans(he's 1 month 8 days older than me...yes I'm a geek) but I need someone to convince me that my opinion is right or wrong. I think he's a clear hall of meriter, but hof is a different story, and I think his relative lack of career hurts him.

My ballot was basically the first 10, so either I'm part of, or I'm result of the groupthink... hmmm... yea kent Hoffman and Wagner seem to be the big losers here. I doubt any of them get in if the ballot is not so stacked, but they would have cleared the 5%.

Good to see even BBTF can't unanimously elect anyone either.

That is one of the side effect good things about the system that the hof has set up, is that consensus is hard, but it also means that the low percentage guys are often given a second look(except the Whitakers, Simmons or Browns)

Crap. I'll fix the tally later. Not sure who I missed.

It would definitely be a much more interesting election if we remove all those sure-fire HOFers. It would make me take a good long look at guys like Edgar, Kent, Sheffield, Edmonds . . .

Who didn't vote for Griffey?

My 10 were 10 of the top 11 (I continue to down-vote Piazza... I also recognize what sort of minority that puts me in)

There was a full ballot without Griffey

Yeah I have seen it now. Sounds like a 'strategic' voting thing.

Kiko, I would vote for Edmonds, Kent, and Sheffield. Much as it pains me to say it, I would not vote for Hoffman.

There's more groupthink here than in the real voting group, which means Trammell and Mussina get in while Kent and McGriff support drops. But if you could convince voters to fill out their full 10 spots you might see a strong class like this put 6-7 guys in.

I only have 72 ballots counted

Found Meatwad, danb and McDowell - now I have 75