(04-24-2018, 05:48 PM)sapp2013 Wrote:^ from WikipediaI considered drawing from the NFL to guide our standard but there are massive differences in the NSFL playerbase and the NFL playerbase.
If 32 teams produce 8 HoFers, 8 teams should produce 2. @Beaver
Somewhere around 1500 players will play in the NFL in any given season while we have, what, 200? 8 of 1500 is 0.5% so if we wanted it truly representative we'd have a maximum of 1 Hall of Famer per season.
But like I said, we don't have near the bottom-of-roster churn that NFL teams go through. Rarely do we have active players that aren't starters so compare the NFL's 800ish starters to our... 80 or so actives? Again that's 1 Hall of Famer max per season.
There isn't really a great analogous way to compare our playerbase to the NFL's so I'd disregard it totally. If we want 2 max per season that's fine and we can try to balance around that but we shouldn't do it just because that gets us kinda close-ish to the NFL HoF.