Sub-forum idea

[wamby]

For some reason this was posted to the wrong forum.

A few of us have been talking via PM, and are concerned with the direction of this forum. On BBFs tagline, it is mentioned that this is a place for baseball historians but we are finding that the HIstory section is becoming a morass of player comparisons, player polls and sabermetric comparisons which inevitably lead to name calling and one-upsmanship. Personally, I think the above mentioned items are legitimite items for debate at BBF, but I think they be better suited for the sabermetric forum.

I think that maybe a subforum could be added to the history of the game forum.

My proposal is this:

A sub-forum dedicated to Baseball Historians (part of BBFs tagline mentions historians, but historians get the shortest shrift on this site) or Historical Analysis, which would be dedicated to research which, for lack of a better analogy, would be similar to grad school type research, where members present research that is of interest to them for some critical review and assistance by other members. I'm sure we each have areas that we are each strong at. I think it would be a good place to post with good bibliographies also.

This type of analysis does not include the following:

1) Polls

2) Ranking of players

3) Sabermetric analysis

The three items above do not really bother me, but I don't think any of them belong in a history forum. I think they belong in the sabermetric forum.

I think our prospective forum can also serve as the historical archive of the forum. Bill Burgess can keep his stuff there without anyone bitching about it.

Under normal circumstances, I would have no desire to be a mod, but I would love to mod this type of forum.

Please let me know what you think. I was going to post this on the web improvement section, but wanted to get your thoughts first.

Thanks

[four tool]

So just what would be included in the historian forum? I personally can't see history without comparisons, IMHO it gets too one dimensional that way.

[webmaster]

It still is the place for researchers, historians, and hard core baseball fans to hang out - in my opinion. Are there more polls know than ever before? Yes. ESPN is a big believer in polls. Are there more SABRmetrics than ever before? Yes, and they certainly do believe that that is the pinnacle of baseball research. I can't argue with them because I don't even understand half of it myself. Rankings of players have led to some serious discussion about who truly is the better player.

Could it be better? Yes, and I along with the moderators and countless members are always doing our best to keep the best place for true baseball fans to discuss the game they love. I most certainly do not have a problem starting a new forum on the site, but the direction would need to be a unique one...

Sean