So to all participants or potential participants of the top 100 project: if you want, please submit----either in this thread, or via PM directly to me if you're not comfortable sharing your list publicly----your all-time list (at least top 50, if not top 100). I will take all lists that I receive by say Friday night or so, and I will create an amalgamated list (and "average" of all those submitted to me) which I will post here shortly after.
Then we can get underway with the top 100 project itself.
6/16/17 EDIT:
OK, I've compiled and processed all the lists from known posters.
How to present it? Well, I wasn't going to simply state the average vote cast for each player, because many posters submitted relatively short lists (so the sample size of votes is pretty small----like often 1 [sometimes spurious] vote----for many "late list" players).
I made a simple point system where a vote for #1 all-time is worth 100 pts; a vote for #2 is worth 99 pts, and so on down to a vote for #100 (ONE other poster besides myself submitted a list of that length) is worth 1 pt.
I'll present the overall point totals from ALL submitted lists (regardless of length) in the first spoiler labeled "Overall pt total rankings". I wasn't sure if that was totally appropriate, though, at least as the sole method of presenting the results. Because so many submitted lists were 25 or less players, certain "middle-ground" players and such will be grossly under-represented by "overall" total score (e.g. guys like Bob Pettit or Scottie Pippen have a dramatically lower total score than someone like Charles Barkley, even though their career values are probably not hugely apart.....it's just because Pettit or Pippen don't crack every top 25 and actually crack very few top 20's). This becomes a bigger issue the further down the list we get (because eventually we reach a range were the sample size of voters is tiny).
So.....since I got so many different length lists (from as few as 6!, to as many as 100, and everything in between), I've chosen some additional methods of review which will be explained below. But first, the quick n' dirty total points from all lists submitted:
Overall Pt Total Rankings (of all players listed on any single list.....again: VERY small sample size for later positions)
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As the smallest list submitted was just a top 6 list, I tabulated everyone's top 6. A total of 11 different players received at least one top 6 placement, with their ranking (based on pts from all top 6 votes) as follows:
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I tabulated the total scores received from everyone's top 15 (for those who submitted a list AT LEAST 15 players in length). A total of 21 players received at least one top 15 rank; ranking based on all top 15 votes is as follows:
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I tabulated the total scores received from everyone's top 20 (for those who submitted a list AT LEAST 20 players in length). A total of 30 players received at least one top 20 rank; ranking based on all top 20 votes is as follows:
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I tabulated the total scores received from everyone's top 25 (for those who submitted a list AT LEAST 25 players in length). A total of 37 players received at least one top 25 rank; ranking of those individuals based on all top 25 votes is as follows:
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I tabulated the total scores received from everyone's top 30 (for those who submitted a list AT LEAST 30 players in length). A total of 41 players received at least one top 30 rank; ranking of those individuals based on all top 30 votes is as follows:
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I tabulated the total scores received from everyone's top 50 (for those who submitted a list AT LEAST 50 players in length). A total of 74 players received at least one top 50 rank; ranking of those individuals based on all top 50 votes is as follows:
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