The primary purpose of this thread is to gauge whether there is sufficient interest for this project to go ahead. Active posters who participated in the 2024 RPoY, the 2023 Top 100, and/or the 2022 Peaks Project have been automatically included in the notification list at the end of this post, but anyone can request to join in the project. If we do not have 15-20 people expressing interest in participating, then the project will be postponed to another year.
EDIT: Looks like we already have 20+ people interested, so this will proceed with the first thread next week (week of July 7). Please express interest in participating in advance of that first thread, preferably by this weekend.
The secondary purpose is to settle on a voting approach, which has tended to vary with every iteration because of differences in desired tallying. I think the 2022 condorcet iteration had a good approach… but it also involved more tallying effort than something like the 2015 peaks project run by trex_8063 or like the 2024 RPoY. I also thought the “nominate then vote” aspect of the 2023 Top 100 made for an interesting way of keeping ballots somewhat focused, which has often been an issue later in these projects. So all that definitely needs to be settled before proceeding.
EDIT: Based on feedback, we will be using the 2022 condorcet method, possibly with a capped ballot pool and nomination process at a later point. I still feel there is merit to eventually incorporating a nomination process akin to how the 2023 Top 100 went (creating a 5-6 player list in each thread after the first from which people submit their ballots), but I will not press the issue if the majority (or the vocal plurality) oppose it.
Spoiler:
If interest and activity is sufficient, maybe we can even push for 60 players this year!
#1 — 2013 LeBron James
#2 — 1974 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#3 — ???
