Community History:Blaseball Community Hall of Fame

The Blaseball Community Hall of Fame^[1] is fan run project to create a list of players who are recognized as significant by members of the Blaseball Community or The Game Band.

A list of all inducted players can be found.

Discipline Era and Expansion Era

Players who played in the Discipline Era or Expansion Era were inducted into the Blaseball Community Hall of Fame^[2] through a series of thirty public polls conducted between 3/14/2022 and 10/23/2022. To be eligible, a player needed at least 2000 combined Plate Appearances and Batters Faced ^[3].

Each round of polling lasted one week. The previous week's results and current week's ballot would be posted on Sunday for discussion purposes. On Wednesday, a Google Form poll would be posted to allow participants to vote, which remained open until Saturday. Hall of Fame discussions took place in dedicated Hall of Fame channels on the SIBR Discord, in the Stats channel in the main Blaseball Discord, as well as on Twitter and other platforms.

In Weeks 1 through 6, each ballot consisted of 40 randomly selected players. Voters could vote for up to 10 players each week, and players were inducted into the Hall of Fame if they were selected on 65% or more of ballots. Players could remain on the ballot for up to five weeks if they continued to meet an escalating survival threshold. Players had to be marked on 5% or more of ballots to survive their first week, 10% to survive their second week, 20% to survive their third week, and 40% to survive their fourth week. On their fifth week, players were eliminated from the ballot if they did not receive enough votes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. New players were randomly added to the ballot to replace those who were inducted or eliminated.

After Week 6, the Hall of Fame project was paused for a week, and the people running the project asked participants to complete a feedback poll. That poll showed that the vast majority of participants felt Inductions were going too slowly. To make inducting players easier, the percent of ballots required for induction was reduced from 65% to 55%, and the number of players on each ballot was reduced from 40 to 36. Voters were still allowed to vote for up to 10 players each week, and the escalating survival threshold was unchanged ^[4]. These updated rules remained in effect for the remainder of the project, and the Hall of Fame continued until it evaluated all players, with only one week-long pause between the Week 19 and Week 20 polls.

During Week 26, the Hall Of Fame admin team announced^[5] a small rule change for the last few weeks of the project. To maintain the total number of 36 players on the ballot and give another chance to players who had to beat a higher induction threshold on a more crowded ballot, players who were eliminated in Weeks 1 through 6 under the 65% induction threshold were allowed to return to the ballot for a second chance at induction. Second chance players were added semi randomly, starting with players who survived through 5 weeks of eligibility, then 4 weeks, and so on. This process would continue until all first chance players had been inducted or eliminated, at which point the project would end.

All told, 431 Discipline and Expansion Era players were eligible for the Hall of Fame, of whom 84 were Inducted (“inducted” here should eventually hyperlink to the Category page we'll create for these Hall of Famers) Furthermore, 37 players who were eliminated in Weeks 1 through 6 were returned to the ballot for a second chance in Weeks 28 through 30. No second chance players received enough votes to be inducted. A list of all eligible players, the overall results, and the results of each round are available in this spreadsheet.

Pre-History Era

During Inside a Blaseball 12^[6], the admins of the Blaseball Community Hall of Fame asked members of The Game Band if they would like to induct any Pre-History players into the Blaseball Community Hall of Fame. The Game Band chose to induct the following players^[7]