Hello everybody!

For those that missed it: last season we hired a new IIHF HoF committee to revive the one we lost in S50 when Bojo Box finally went kaput and we had no way of accessing IIHF career stats easily.

Now, thanks to incredible efforts (as always) of Canadice, we have career stats once again and are ready to induct the next class of Hall of Famers.




This revived committee is made up of the following members:
artermis
Count Chocula (Inductee)
High Stick King
marco999
mer
RashfordU
sköldpaddor
TheSparkyDee




The Method

Using the previous itteration of the IIHF HoF as a basepoint (which used the SHL HoF as its own), this process operated as folows:

In order to induct more players as we play historical catch-up, there are two ballots: one for forwards, and one for defence and goaltenders. In addition, players are eligible the season after they retire and remain eligible for 10 seasons.
Each Committee Member can vote for a maximum of five (5) players to be inducted.
These players are ranked 1-5, and given points relative to their ranking (10, then 7, 5, 3, and 1) of which a player needs 35 points to be inducted.
A change made for this season, however, realizing that point limit seems to be made for a committee of 10 members, we have applied a multiplier of 1.25 to all vote totals, to represent our smaller committee of 8 members.

Players who had retired prior to the opening of the IIHF HoF in S49 had 8 seasons of elligiblity remaining prior to this voting session, while those who retired in-between the first and second IIHF HoF ceremonies had 9 seasons left.





The Ceremony

Starting tomorrow, every day I'll announce one inductee from this year's class.

I've never been the best at writing, but I hope to bestow on you some historical facts as we induct international legend, an honor long overdue for many.

In the future, we hope to get closer with the events team and make these more professional, for now though the show most go on, so see you tomorrow for our first inductee who also turns out to be the first unanimous first place inductee in IIHF HoF history.