Choose your all-time HOF team

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by G1911

An all-time team with a built in recency basis, picking the players best for todays game rather than a pound-for-pound style ranking of dominance in context, is not an All-Time Team at all.

An increase in the quantity of players has no effect whatsoever on an all-time team. The absolute greats do not lose their jobs in a smaller league; the worse players do.

As an All-Time Team, your 1893 cutoff used to dismiss the improbability is not relevant.

If anything, I see a nostalgia bias on most peoples teams. Very stacked in favor of prewar and dead ball era players.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If anything, I see a nostalgia bias on most peoples teams. Very stacked in favor of prewar and dead ball era players.

Yes that is one of the preferred periods in such teams. Nowhere did I argue or imply the bias is to the most modern period. The method proposed by the poster quoted is an argument of recency, which is not what most teams given constitute though. They love the classic post-war and the deadball period.