Comments on: Layups: How to Fix the All-Star Voting Process http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=866 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Daniel http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=866&cpage=1#comment-8485 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:31:47 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=866#comment-8485 Why not let voters pick more than one at each position. For instance, the voters could list their top-5 guards, top-5 forwards, and top-3 centers, in order. That way, even if Garnett wasn't in everyone's top-2, he'd still get a ton of 3rd, 4th, and 5th place votes. Similarly, everyone who didn't vote for Yi would likely keep him out of their top-5 as well. This also fixes the "crappy player over much-better-but-not-quite-starter-material" situation (Alston over Roy, Dalembert over several players, etc.) In the current system, any reasonable/informed NBA fan would vote for Howard in the East, or Kobe/Paul in the West, so the voting tallies of everyone else are either random or influenced by random factors such as the fact that Mcgrady is Yao's teammate.

Of course, it's not perfect, but I think it would be a lot better than the current system. It's also very easy to implement, and easy (I would also argue more fun) for voters to pick 13 players from each side.

]]> By: David Pilsner http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=866&cpage=1#comment-8483 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:18:29 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=866#comment-8483 Hello. The region idea might work, but I've got a bone to pick with it.

It is good for the fans to be involved in selecting All-Stars, because fans are naturally very important for the game. We want to include the fans as much as possible.

Instead of taking it away from them, why don't we issue an All-Star guide to all voters, where the NBA can try to guide the voters in making better picks.

Also, what about making some players ineligible, like ones that haven't played at all or ones that have played in a handful of games?

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