10-19-2023, 06:30 AMRomanesEuntDomus Wrote: I would love to see a system for articles about recent HOF inductees and also older players in the HOF. I had that idea before and talked about it with a few people, but nothing ever really came of it...

Basically how I would do it is with a sort of "commission" based system. The members of the HOF committee wouldn't write the articles themselves, instead every member could "apply" in an easy and non-bureaucratic process to get one of the players in the HOF assigned to them and then that member writes a career retrospective on the player. The HOF-committee would set certain minimum standards in regards to word count and quality that the articles needs to meet, but everything else is up to the member writing it and they can try to interview the member behind that player, talk to his former teammates, take a statistical deep dive, whatever they prefer.

When the article is done, they submit it to the committee for them to check if everything is in order and if the criteria were met and possible revisions have happened, then the HOF-Committee publishes it as an official peace of HOF-media. The person who wrote the article will get a bonus compared to the regular media payout for all the hoops we made them jump through with the whole media process (2x word count as the standard for example, maybe with the option to give even more if the article is exceptional). In the rare case that an article doesn't meet the standards and is not salvageable, or when the writer and the committee just don't see eye-to-eye, they can still publish the article as regular media if they want and get the normal payout.

This way we could get a bunch of great articles and honor the leagues history and it's former members and players, while giving people media content and a good payout for something that should be an enjoyable read for a lot of people. Everyone would be able to participate and articles will be different depending on peoples personal style, while staying away from strict rules like "we need to have an article for every new inductee within a season" or stuff like that. And if I'm wrong and people don't care about writing these, then nothing bad happens either and no effort goes to waste, because the whole process only kicks of when there is actual content.

There's some cross-department hurdles that would need to be jumped to make this happen as is but I love the idea of finding a way to generate more history-based media related to the HoF. We'll bounce some ideas and I may touch base at some point to brainstorm