Rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs throughout the 1980s and 1990s have made a mess of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. Star players are finding themselves snubbed from the Hall based on mere suspicion of steroid use. Enshrinement in the baseball Hall of Fame has become more of a popularity contest and judgement of moral character than a commemoration of legendary achievements on the playing field.
Many years ago, I set out to develop an objective system for selecting players to join the baseball Hall of Fame. Instead of the current subjective system of voting amongst baseball writers, my system would look at concrete evidence of popularity and performance compared with peers. My system would not be influenced by events and judgments made after the fact.
I developed a system that I call All-Star Analysis of Players (ASAP). Each year, I update a giant spreadsheet of players with updated stats. Then I pick an all-star team of new players who have never been picked before. These are the Mega All-Stars. You can find the full list at https://stevesnotebook.com/heroes/.
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