Mavericksfan wrote: .
I don't wanna single you out, nor I want to move the focus from the basketball discussion to the "contorversy", but, since it's not the first time that I feel "accused" as to say, and since the votings are closed, I think it's time to throw this out of the way.
I'm not saying that anybody should feel grateful to me for running the project, I mean it's just a RealGm project, who in the world feels grateful, or from my part, would expect "recognition" for something like that, in fact, it's ridicolous to even type that, but:
The reason why I'm running the project is that nobody wants or has the time to run it (more than fairly so), (plus I figured that if we didn't do it now we wouldn't do it for a bit, since Summer 2020 is the scheduled TOP 100 season,) same goes for the defensive project (which the great trex ended up directing it more than me but that's another story) or any other project who I could have in mind or have proposed.
If I could just come up with project ideas (in the sense of board voting projects) and just ask somebody to run them, I wouldn't even think about trying to run them myself. I don't have the time, I'm not fast at writing in another language etc. I'm not doing these projects for myself, that's for sure.
I'm not biased in any way. At the start, I completely left the voting system up to the guys who came up with the better ideas (unfortunately there were some misunderstandings on my part at the start of the project but I quickly fixed it), if I disregarded their opinions and just went with the 2015 method (add up all the points given to different seasons of the same player) lebron (who I clearly root for) would have doubled shaq's points and would have finished closer to MJ, but I didn't. Lebron was winning at the 48 hours (at least counting my vote, I don't remember if I got it in in the first 48 hours) but I kept the thread up. I voted for Wilt in this one, and you said it was suspect even tho I could have just let him win at the 48 hours mark. 3 times out of 3, I picked the decision that went against the guys I preferred. Again, I don't care personally, but just understand that no, nobody is biased, nobody is doing anything illecit, nobody cares that much. Again, we went 50 threads deep (10 per position) in the defensive project and everything was fine.
Again, as far as shaq goes, another reason for keeping the thread up is that, having been on this forum for many years (started lurking way before my signing date), I feel like Shaq having the #4 best peak ever doesn't really resemble the consensus of this place, so it was only right that we got as much votes as possible in to avoid a response influenced by the low sample size.
To end it, I already said that my rant at the start of the #1 thread was a mistake on my part, but yeah, at the same time, a) Ballerhogger's vote 1)Kareem 197(?) 2) Shaq 00 3) Kobe 06 was crazy, plus he's a known kobe stan, laker stan etc, and stannism is the worst thing that can happen to these threads, and B) It's just crazy that I felt like allowing that vote even in the #2 and #3 thread just to avoid the criticism, we are on real gm, voting members, voting requirements, explaination needed etc have always been a real gm thing, and that vote was, not only absurd, but just totally oblivious to any type of discussion going on in those threads. Again I was wrong for saying that thing about ballots without lebron in the first 3, but I was saying it half joking, plus yeah, Lebron is Lebron, so you know that many votes would will be biased by a pro or anti lebron sentiment, but that wasn't the right way to eliminate that bias so yeah, I was wrong.
So in the end:
This is the project, stop worrying about suspects, rules etc, this thing has started more than a week ago, like, this is the project, we are not figuring out if we can do it or not, this is it, if there's something to fix it's only right that one can speak his mind but stop with this scepticism. It's just the peaks project.
