From: spira@panix.com (Greg Spira)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Major Award Votes
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:07:56 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

This is the next to last posting of the instructions for voting in the
rec.sport.baseball postseason awards survey.  The final posting will
occur on Wednesday/Thursday.  All ballots must be sent out by noon
on Saturday, October 10th.  No ballots "postmarked" after that date
and time will be accepted.  
                     
Update On The Balloting: As expected, ballots have started to come in
with greater frequency during the last week.  I have already tallied
up all the votes submitted through October 1, and all but one of the
races remain quite close.  Everyone who has yet to vote is encouraged
to vote.  If you do not feel comfortable voting for some of the awards,
only submit votes in the categories you want to vote in.  

Because of a total lack of enthusiasm among rsb'ers for any balloting
for awards other than the big 6, and also because of some recent problems
this system has had and the fact that it is moving across the river       
sometime during the next few weeks, I'm not going to hold votes for any
other awards - at least not right now.  If circumstances change, there
are still possibilities.

I have tried to stick as close to possible to the same rules and
procedures that the BBWAA uses, though in a few cases (all noted)
I have elected to go with procedures that make a bit more sense in
this case.

NL and AL MVP Awards

Voters are permitted to vote for up to 10 players.  First place
votes earn 14 points, second place points 9 votes, third place 8
points .......... tenth place 1 point.

NL and AL Cy Young and Rookie of the Year Awards:

Voters are permitted to vote for up to 3 players.  First place
votes earn 5 points, second place 3 points, and third place 1
points.

The one place where the voting rules differ from the BBWAA's is
that split votes will not be allowed.  Tie votes, while not
encouraged, are permitted. 

The BBWAA deadline for votes is the last day of the season so as
to make sure that the post-season does not influence the vote. 
In order to enable rsb citizens who want to evaluate the players
after the season has ended to do just that, the deadline for this
vote is noon on Saturday, October 10th.

Please vote only once.  I'm not going to go nuts trying to figure
if someone has sent me votes from two different accounts, so if you
try and fool me you probably will, though.

If your e-mail address doesn't have a name attached to it, include a name
in your ballot.  The inclusion of a name - even one that isn't yours - 
will make me happy.

Each vote will be acknowledged by mail.  If you do not get an
acknowledgement within a week after you send it, assume that your
vote was not received.

Ballots must be mailed.  I will not count any rec.sport.baseball
posts as ballots.  Send all votes to spira@panix.com.  If for
some reason your mailer doesn't like that address, use
cmcl2!panix!spira

The e-mail in which you send your ballot should have the subject
header Major Award Votes

The results will be released immediately after the World Series
is over.

Greg