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Hello and welcome to episode 17-22, with effectively wild baseball podcasts from Famgraphs presented by Alex Patreon supporters.

I am Heather Inberg, I am the favorite journalist I've always been by and make rally out of Famgraphs. Hello, Megan!

Hello! As we tease yesterday, we will be talking some Hall of Fame today.

Not the BDWA ballot, been there, done that, will probably do that again sometime soon. But today, a brief reprieve from that conversation that fraught discourse to discuss a slightly less fraught Hall of Fame discourse about a bunch of new Hall of Famers.

There are six new members, new inductees, into the Hall of Fame, including some very well-known ones, perhaps some of the most notable excluded players prior to Sunday's election of the early baseball and Golden Days era committee of the Hall of Fame.

And we wanted to talk about those inductees and some general Hall of Fame matters with someone who is an expert on those subjects. So, we are welcoming in Adam Durowski. Hello, Adam!

Hey, man. Hey, Meg, how are you doing?

We're doing well. And I believe that this is the first time that we have had you on this podcast somehow. Clearly, we have been remiss in not having you on to this point.

So I'm glad that we are rectifying that oversight today. And there couldn't be a better time to do it because you have devoted a lot of time to thinking and writing and talking about all of the Hall of Fame candidates who got in and a lot who didn't.

And just the general way of thinking through the Hall of Fame.

But before we get to these ballots and these candidates and these long awaited inductions and continued snubs, maybe we can talk a little bit about you and how you got into this line of work and what it is exactly that you do because you are in addition to being a baseball historian and Hall of Fame scholar, the head of user experience for sports reference, namely the company that runs baseball reference a site that means a lot to us and to a lot of our listeners.

And my user experience with baseball reference has been great. So you're doing a bang up job, I think, but what is it exactly that head of user experience at sport reference does.

Thank you very much for those kind words. Yeah, the head of user experience at baseball reference does a lot of things like talking to users such as as you've been we talked once about things that were going on in a site.

And just try to figure out like what's working for users, what's not working for users. And then I take all of that and I try to turn that into designs for new features and share that with users as we're working on them and and kind of repeat the whole cycle as we improve the site.

So it's a lot of working with users, which I love to do. Yeah. And you've been busy during your time with the company. I know that there was a big mobile overhaul. There was a stat head overhaul.

Maybe some of this isn't totally visible to someone who's just checking baseball reference every now and then and sees a lot of tables with stats. But under the hood, it has changed a lot. And there are some new tables with stats.

So what has been accomplished during your tenure?

Oh gosh, so I joined actually full time only about a year ago. And kind of the biggest thing in that year was we had the Negro leagues launch. We had the addition of some new stat head tools such as the spanfinder.

We had the additions of the advanced batting tables that has some new stack cast data and other advanced data that we had kind of been burying on some some sub secondary level pages. So we kind of bubbled those up to the top.

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