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Criteria for Giants in US and Overseas

Posted By: Bill Riles
Date: Monday, 1 June 2009, at 11:47 p.m.

In Response To: Criteria for Giants in US and Overseas (Perry Gartner)

Some interesting and, I think, workable ideas. Certainly a basis for consideration of a fairer, more comprehensive, and more accurate system.

The shortcoming to the merger of results from the different geographic regions is the doubtless disparate distribution of Giants among those geographic regions.

As an example, say Region 1 has 15 viable candidates for the 32 Giants and Region 2 has only 8 viable candidates. If only the top ten from each region advance to a combined ballot then 5 candidates are eliminated from Region 1 while Region 2 gets two additonal candidates who might not otherwise qualify.

Perhaps, a more reasonable variation of a similar process could be developed. Maybe an initial round of balloting, generally consistent with the current manner, is conducted. Then, after tabulation and the results being published, a second round of balloting could be conducted among the original voters. Only the top 64, or whatever number is deemed appropriate, are included on the second ballot -- and the specific original vote totals are not disclosed, only perhaps a definition of whether the candidate was in the first, second, third, or fourth quartile of the original voting. All voters then choose, in order, their top 32 from among the top 64 -- if that is the number desired. Tabulation of those results determine the Giants.

Thus, everyone's final ballots would include only serious contenders, by general acclaim, and the lesser, random selections by individual voters are eliminated.

I think that would be fairer than the current system -- though we would still have some geographic bias. However, if, as examples, everyone in the States is voting for primarily Americans then perhaps the individual votes are diluted somewhat; whereas, if there are fewer Japanese potential Giants, they may well appear on more ballots, w/o the same dilution effect.

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