MLB '10

Alex · 06-08-2010, 12:57 PM

Baseball Reference has "Hall of Fame" scores for everybody in which you earn points for various playing achievements. The average Hall of Famers has a score of 100. So far the MLB draft has only produced three surefire Hall of Famers in the #1 pick (Griffey-235 points, Rodriguez-349 points, Chipper Jones-162 points) and one borderline case (Harold Baines-66 points).

Excluding the three sure things, the rest of the group picked through 1997 (to allow time for an actual career) averages a Hall of Fame score of 13.2.

Unfortunately I don't see anything similar for basketball on their site. However, a somewhat random sample of modern major leaguers produces and average of 2.57. So they're definitely pretty good at making sure that the #1 pick is better than average.

06-08-2010, 12:57 PM	#11
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Baseball Reference has "Hall of Fame" scores for everybody in which you earn points for various playing achievements. The average Hall of Famers has a score of 100. So far the MLB draft has only produced three surefire Hall of Famers in the #1 pick (Griffey-235 points, Rodriguez-349 points, Chipper Jones-162 points) and one borderline case (Harold Baines-66 points). Excluding the three sure things, the rest of the group picked through 1997 (to allow time for an actual career) averages a Hall of Fame score of 13.2. Unfortunately I don't see anything similar for basketball on their site. However, a somewhat random sample of modern major leaguers produces and average of 2.57. So they're definitely pretty good at making sure that the #1 pick is better than average.
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