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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
This seems like a pretty aggressive list
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It looks like roughly 6 players make it each year as of recent history. The average HOF player (in my rough estimate) probably averages 14 years in the league (some more, some less). Lets drop those numbers by 1 to be conservative and say 5 players make it each year and the average hof player averages 13 years in the league. That means that there are 65 HOF players playing right now. I only listed 48 players that I thought were probably going to make it. At first glance it seems over the top and aggressive due to the massive amount of players listed, but I don't believe it to be aggressive because it corresponds with how many players will make it.
Also on a side note, I think the WR log jam is not only due to the number of WR's competing against each other trying to get it, I think part of it has to do with the numbers that WRs are putting up today. Granted it is a more pass happy league today, but in a few years, when a bunch of todays WR's pass players's numbers that just recently got elected into the hall of fame, it will be hard to say that they all can't get in as well. I think part of the log jam is that the voters are waiting to see how big the numbers are that today's WR's are going to put up before they induct WR's with potentially inferior numbers. I'm not saying that's a right mentality due to the change in the game and the inflation of numbers today, I'm just saying that politically it might cause future problems.