Ticket on HOF nominees

2/5/2010 11:40 AM	benj13blue
It's ridiculous that Grover Rowand and Haywood Towers aren't even eligible to be nominated for the Hall of Fame. They were two of the best pitchers in the history of the world for a good chunk of time. I don't know if they pitched long enough to really be Hall of Famers, but the owners in our world should get the chance to debate that. Is there some way players who don't meet the nomination thresholds can be added to the list upon owner request?
2/5/2010 1:28 PM	Customer Support
Please refer to following knowledge base article. http://whatifsports.com/knowledgebase/KB_Article_Details.aspx?kbid=774
2/5/2010 1:53 PM	benj13blue
I'm well aware of the requirements, thanks. That's the point. They're bad. I told patrick they were bad, and that star players such as Rowand and Towers would be left out as a result. I guess we'll have to start our own Hall of Fame on the world blog. Oh well. Yours could have been a cool feature.
2/5/2010 2:13 PM	Customer Support
We reduced the qualifications for all players to accommodate for players that were generated with ML years upon world creation and I'm sorry you disagree with the formula that we use, but you can see that even if we were to modify it it wouldn't get every player in that every user wants to see. Even if we only take into account the seasons in which Rowand played he doesn't qualify. I would be interested to know of any pitcher that has ever been up for nomination with less than 125IP. You may have a case for Towers but again we lowered the numbers to get these types of guys in and he still doesn't qualify.
2/5/2010 2:18 PM	benj13blue
That's why I'm saying there should be some way to make a special request to be able to nominate somebody who otherwise wouldn't qualify. I don't know if Towers and Rowand would make it, but that shouldn't be up to you. It should be up to our world. They were dominant pitchers for the early stage of our world history.
2/5/2010 2:19 PM	benj13blue
Or you could just make it so that anybody who won an MVP or Cy Young award is eligible to be nominated, even if they don't meet your formula. That wouldn't add that many players to the mix and it would probably catch every player who people are griping about not being included.
2/5/2010 2:21 PM	Customer Support
I understand what you are saying, but everyone wants someone in that didn't qualify. We could never field that many requests. If changes need to made we can always change the qualifications and we appreciate your suggestion.
2/5/2010 2:30 PM	benj13blue
What about making Cy Young/MVP winners all eligible for nominations. Most of them will be eligible anyway, so adding the rest can't be that big a deal, right?
2/5/2010 2:33 PM	Customer Support
Like I said if we feel that we need to make any changes we will surely take your suggestions into consideration. Thanks again.
2/5/2010 2:46 PM	benj13blue
Just so I'm clear, you've gotten so many complaints about missing players that you couldn't handle that many individual requests, but you don't think anything's wrong with your method, so you won't yet consider a simple fix that would stop just about all the complaints. That's the customer support I've come to know and love from WIS. Sorry to be snarky, but sometimes you guys make a really enjoyable product unnecessarily frustrating.