From: spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of Life" Spira)
Subject: Major Award Votes
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:15:42 GMT
Organization: Boo!  




The following is the information needed to vote in the rsb balloting
for the major award categories.  Since we are in the final two weeks of
the balloting period, I will post the ballot a bit more frequently
during these two weeks.  The final two postings of this ballot will
occur Sunday/Monday and Wednesday/Thursday.   

Update On The Balloting: I've received only about 20 ballots so far,
but I always expected to receive most of the ballots during the last
weeks of the voting period.  The voting so far has several races,
especially the wild and wacky AL MVP race, extremely tight.  So
please do take the time to vote.  Please note that while there are 6
different awards for which to vote, if you do not feel knowledgable
enough about one league or certain awards you are welcome to vote in 
only some of the "categories."
                     
Update On The Update: Ballots have started coming in with much greater
frequency since I wrote the above paragraph.  

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.

I have been receiving ballots since the beginning of September, and
I will continue to accept them until the end of the voting period.

If you vote and then decide later (before the end of the voting
period) to change your vote, I will try and change it.  But if I
get an onslaught of changes I can't guarantee that that I'll be
able to adjust every ballot.  So do try not to send your votes
until you're pretty sure of your choices.

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.

This post will be re-posted every Monday until the voting period
has ended.

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 
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