[Syd Thrift]

FWIW, HOF Monitor points aren't based on how good a player is but whether or not he's a viable candidate according to the other people who've gotten into the Hall. IRL, there are too many pitchers from the deadball era and *way* too many hitters from the 20s and 30s due in large part because voters later on went gaga over stats without looking at the context (also because of Frankie Frisch, but that's a whole 'nother ballgame). To contrast, pitchers who would be borderline HOFers if they played as well relative to their league in the 50s and 60s as they did in the Depression era stay out because statistically they look like average guys with a good number of wins (example: Wes Ferrell, whose brother, ironically enough, is in the Hall as a catcher and probably shouldn't be).

So it's a neat idea, what you've got, but I for one would prefer something that reflected the fallibility of American sportswriters.