Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the on March 24, Dwight Howard will be inducted into the Orlando Magic Hall of Fame.

Howard, who was recently named a Finalist for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame last month, will become the 13th member of the Magic Hall of Fame.

Drafted first overall in 2004, Howard played his first eight seasons in the NBA in Orlando, where the Center was an All-Star in his last six years with the Magic.  Howard won three consecutive Defensive Player of the Year Awards, was a five-time First Team All-NBA Selection, and carried Orlando to the 2009 NBA Finals.  He also finished in the top five in MVP voting four times with the Magic, including a second-place finish in 2010-11

Statistically, Howard averaged 18.4 Points, 13.0 Rebounds and 2.2 Blocks per Game and captured four Rebounding Titles and two Blocks Titles.  Currently, Howard is the All-time franchise leader in Points (11,435), Rebounds (8,072), Blocks (1,344), Free Throws (3,366) and Minutes Played (22,471).

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Dwight Howard for his impending honor.

1975 PRELIMINARY RESULTS:

Thank you to all who participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project. If you are still determining what that is, we acted like the PFHOF had its first class in January 1946.

We have completed the first 29 years thus far.

For “1975,” a Preliminary Vote with close to 100 players whose playing career ended by 1969. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they do not make it into the Hall, they are relegated to the Senior Pool.

Each voter was asked to select 25 names from the preliminary list, and the top 25 vote-getters were named Semi-Finalists.

A week later, the voters will be asked to pick 15 names from the 25 Semi-Finalists, and next after, they will pick five from the remaining 15. We will continue this process weekly until we catch up to the current year.

Please note that a significant change occurred “years ago,” allowing voters to submit less than the allotted spots. 

30 Votes took place.

This is for the “Modern Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates they have been removed from future ballots

This is for the “Senior Era”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates that they will be removed from the ballot permanently.

Please note that one voted for “None of the Above.”

This is for the “Coaches/Contributors”

Bold indicates they advanced to the Semi-Finals:

*Indicates that they will be removed from the ballot permanently.

Next week, we will announce the Semi-Finalists for the 1975 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project.

One of or favorite institutions, the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY, has announced that one of its Hall of Fames, the Video Game Hall of Fame, has unveiled the 2025 nominees.

Nominated are:

Age of Empires
Angry Birds
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Defender
Frogger
Golden Eye
Golden Tee
Harvest Moon
Mattel Football
Quake
NBA 2K
Tamagotchi 

The winners will be enshrined on May 8.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 revision of our top 50 San Diego Padres.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.

Last year, the Padres won 93 Games and made it to the Division Series, where they lost to the eventual World Series Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers.  There were four new entrants bases on 2024, and several elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which saw one change based on the new algorithm.

1. Tony Gwynn

2. Trevor Hoffman

3. Dave Winfield

4. Jake Peavy

5. Randy Jones

You can find the entire list here.

Winfield moved ahead of Peavy to claim the #3 spot.

Infielder Manny Machado climbed one spot to #6.

Another Infielder, Fernando Tatis Jr., moved to #7 from #10.

The first of four new entrants is Infielder, Ha-Seong Kim, who is now with Tampa.  He enters at #25, and was erroneously left off last year’s revision.

Second Baseman Jake Cronenworth advanced to #28 from #34.

Pitcher Blake Snell, who is now with the Giants, climbed to #34 from #40.

Outfielder Jurickson Profar, who is now an Atlanta Brave, debuts at #42.

Pitcher Joe Musgrove enters at #43.

Pitcher Yu Darvish begins his Padres list at #44. 

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.