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If you are a regular visitor at Notinhalloffame.com, you know that we created the Notinhalloffame NHL Cup, where in every regular season game, we award points (5-4-3-2-1) to the top five performers.  This is the third year that we have done this, and Edmonton’s Connor McDavid won the first two. To keep everyone regularly in the loop this time, we have decided to give regular updates, starting at Thanksgiving, and tell all of you the top ten.  We will be doing updates every Mondday. Here is the second current top ten in Notinhalloffame Cup Points: 1. David Pastrnak, Boston Bruins.…
1953 PRELIMINARY RESULTS: Thank you for all of you who have participated in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, and if you are unaware of what that is, simply, we acted as if the PFHOF had their first class in January of 1946? We have completed the first two years, where a Preliminary, Semi-Final and Final vote for the 1946 Class, which inducted two full classes For “1953” a Preliminary Vote with over 130 players whose playing career ended by 1945. We are also following the structure in that players have 20 years of eligibility, and if they…
Yes, we know that this is taking a while! As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Boston Bruins. As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 1.  Advanced Statistics. 2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the…
In an article on The Players Tribune, Place Kicker, Robbie Gould announced his retirement from professional football Playing his college ball at Penn State, Gould first played professionally for the Chicago Bears for eleven seasons (2005-15), where in 2006, he was a First Team All-Pro and Pro Bowler.  After a year with the New York Giants, Gould signed with the San Francisco 49ers, where he played until 2022. Gould is in the top ten in Points (1,961), Field Goals (447) and Field Goal Percentage (86.4) Gould is unlikely to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (he is eligible…
Yes, we know that this is taking a while! As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Anaheim Ducks. As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 1.  Advanced Statistics. 2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the…
The Baseball Hall of Fame just announced that Boston Red Sox announcer, Joe Castiglione won the Ford C. Frick Award, meaning that he is now a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Beginning his sports broadcasting career in Cleveland in 1978, where he called games for the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Cavaliers, but would depart for Boston in 1983, and would become their lead announcer in 1992.  He broadcast multiple World Series Titles in Boston, and for the local fans, became the voice of their renaissance.     We here at Notinhllloffame.com would like to congratulate Joe Castiglione for his…
If you are a regular visitor at Notinhalloffame.com, you know that we created the Notinhalloffame NBA Cup, where in every regular season game, we award points (5-4-3-2-1) to the top five performers.  This is the fourth year that we have done this, and Denver’s Nikola Jokic winning the first two, and Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers winning last year. To keep everyone regularly in the loop this time, we have decided to give regular updates, starting at Thanksgiving.  We will this going forward with every update as the first player breaches the elevated ten-point threshold afterward. Here is the…
The Hall of Fame season continues with the Baseball Hall’s announcement that Jim Leyland has been named to the Hall via the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for Managers/Executives/Umpires.   The former Manager received 15 of 16 voted for the ballot, making him the only person selected from this group. Leyland is a three-time Manager of the Year (1990, 1992 & 2006), and led the Florida Marlins to their improbable 1997 World Series title.  With a career record of 1,769-1,728 and helmed the United States to victory in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Missing out was Lou Piniella who received 11 votes…
Yes, we know that this is taking a while! As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Toronto Raptors. As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following: 1.  Advanced Statistics. 2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the…
1952 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project Class. Here we are!  Again!! If you have been following our Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, you know that we have asked the rhetorical question…what if the PFHOF began in January of 1946? After soliciting and obtaining a passionate group of football fans and historians, we sent out a ballot for a Preliminary Vote, which we asked each voter to give us 25 names as their semi-finalists, and 5 in the Senior Pool. Following that, we asked the group to vote for their 15 Finalists in the Modern Era, and…