From: spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of Life" Spira)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Major Award Votes
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:31:37 GMT
Organization: Boo!


This a repost.  There have been only a few minor changes
since last week.  I will continue to repost this every Monday
during the coming month.


With a lot of other rsb posters otherwise occupied, and Dave
Kirsch, who handled this stuff last year, busy with the mock
expansion draft, I'm going to take on the task this year of
running rsb award votes.

I'm dividing the vote into two sections.  This section, the major
awards, consists of the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year
awards.  The minor awards will be dealt with separately in a
different post in a few weeks.

The major award votes will basically follow the same rules as the
BBWAA votes. 

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 recommend that posters do not vote until at least mid-
September, but I will accept any vote from now 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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