What does it take to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame
Abstract
The National Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1936,
with five players elected into the first class. The earliest
year that a player from the hall of fame played was 1890,
about 115 baseball seasons ago. Since the first five members
inducted in 1936, 217 more members have been welcomed into
this exclusive hall, leading to questions of how exclusive
this hall actually is. Due to the nature of different eras
and rule changes over the years, statistics of players who
have played in different eras cannot be directly compared.
Players' statistics have to be normalized using the overall
league performance each year as a base. Once this is done,
weights are assigned to significant statistical categories
to determine a HoF value for each player using regression.
Various comparison methods are then used to compare the HoF
values of newer inductees with the HoF values of the Hall of
Famers. Majorization will be a tool used to compare the
normalized statistics of newer inductees with the Hall of
Fame standard.
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