Effectively Wild Episode 787: He Knows if Your Hall of Fame Ballot Has Been Bad or Good
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Sam talk to Ryan Thibodaux about what he’s learned from his effort to track Hall of Fame ballots.
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| 0:00.0 | Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down, help me get down, I can make it, help me get down, if I only move the answer. |
| 0:12.0 | And the four days are number and why do I keep counting? |
| 0:20.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 787 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | From baseball perspective, brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538, Hey Ben Low. |
| 0:35.0 | And also joined by Ryan Tibido. Hi Ryan, how are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Hey guys. |
| 0:41.0 | Special guest Ryan Tibido. Many of you have seen his recent output getting a lot of play. |
| 0:48.0 | Ryan is the guy who runs the Hall of Fame Ballot tracker on the internet. |
| 0:54.0 | And he's also on Twitter at Not Mr. Tib's. |
| 0:59.0 | So you're not the first person who's done this. |
| 1:01.0 | No I'm not. |
| 1:02.0 | But you are. |
| 1:03.0 | It's just the best. |
| 1:04.0 | You are setting new records for responses. |
| 1:07.0 | How many responses? |
| 1:08.0 | How many ballots did you collect last year, either by publicly published ballots or that the writers themselves responded to your reporting? |
| 1:17.0 | Are you still in the audience? |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah. So last year, well, the end of February, I had 329 ballots out of the 549 that were cast. |
| 1:27.0 | So that was 59.93% of all the ballots. |
| 1:32.0 | I added one my 330th just a couple of weeks ago. |
| 1:36.0 | A voter gave me his ballot from last year. |
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