Make sure to vote for Willie Anderson

[George Cantstandya]

(12-15-2021, 11:32 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: what % does the fan vote account for in the selection process?

As far as I know they don't count for the real selection.  I just think it's a thing they for fun as fan engagement and for the data collection sorry sweepstakes. 

From the HoF website:

https://www.profootballhof.com/heroes-of-the-game/selection-process-faq/

Quote:The Pro Football Hall of Fame's 49-person Selection Committee is charged with the vital task of continuing to ensure that new enshrinees are the finest the Game has produced.

The Committee consists of one media representative from each pro football city — with two from New York and two from Los Angeles, as those cities each have two teams in the National Football League. There are 17 at-large Selectors, who are active members of the media or persons intricately involved in professional football, including one representative of the Pro Football Writers of America. All appointments are open-ended and approved annually by a majority vote of the Hall of Fame's Board of Trustees. 

The Selection Committee meets annually on the Saturday before the Super Bowl (or another date prior to Super Bowl weekend) to elect new members of the Hall of Fame. There is no set number of new enshrinees, but the Committee’s current ground rules do stipulate that between four and eight new members will be selected each year.  Every candidate is thoroughly reviewed and must receive approval from at least 80% of the full Committee to be elected.

Here is an article from when they did this for the 2020 class.  I can't find a similar one for the previous year or this year but you will note the URL for this year is the same as the one listed in the article below:

https://www.profootballhof.com/ford-fan-vote-launches-for-the-class-of-2020/

Quote:Fans can now start voting as many times as they wish at http://www.profootballhof.com/fanvote to predict the five Modern-Era players who will be elected to the Hall of Fame as part of the special Centennial Class of 2020.