HOF Predictions by Card Manufacturers

LarkinCollector

I thought it might be fun to analyze the predictive capabilities of the card companies for future HOFers. I recall several subsets and insert sets in the 90s such as the following for baseball at least:

1991 Score Cooperstown
1993 Pinnacle Cooperstown
1998 Leaf Heading for the Hall

1995 Score Hall of Gold (iffy on this one, but included for the "Hall" reference)

Feel free to add more sets and help build a list for other sports. For baseball, let's draw the line at 2000 and prior, since that should give adequate time for their career to complete and the 5 year wait for voting eligibility.

I'll start it off with the 1991 Score Cooperstown ...

Wade Boggs - Yes
Barry Larkin - Yes
Ken Griffey Jr. - Yes
Rickey Henderson - Yes
George Brett - Yes
Will Clark - No
Nolan Ryan - Yes

6/7 = 85.7%

A small checklist and with three pretty much guaranteed with at least a decade under their belt at that point definitely helped their hit rate.

Baseball - Best to Worst
90% 1993 Leaf Heading for the Hall
85.7% 1991 Score Cooperstown
83.3% 1986 Fleer Future Hall of Famer
73.3% 1998 Topps Chrome Hallbound
70% 1998 Leaf Heading for the Hall

saucywombat

1993 Leaf - Heading for the Hall (insert subset)

Nolan Ryan
Tony Gwynn
Robin Yount
Eddie Murray
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Roger Clemens
George Brett
Ryne Sandberg
Kirby Puckett
Ozzie Smith

9/10 = 90% (Clemens spoiled the perfecto)

LarkinCollector

@saucywombat said:
9/10 = 90% (Clemens spoiled the perfecto)

He's not out of it, yet.

nam812

1998 Topps Chrome Hallbound

1 Paul Molitor
2 Tony Gwynn
3 Wade Boggs
4 Roger Clemens
5 Dennis Eckersley
6 Cal Ripken Jr.
7 Greg Maddux
8 Rickey Henderson
9 Ken Griffey Jr.
10 Frank Thomas
11 Mark McGwire
12 Barry Bonds
13 Mike Piazza
14 Juan Gonzalez
15 Randy Johnson

Currently 11 out of 15

brad31

1986 Fleer Future Hall of Famer

Rose
Carlton
Seaver
Carew
Ryan
Jackson

5/6 - all seemed like no-brainer sure-fire Hall of Famers at the end of their career with enough stats to already make it - and still couldn’t get to 100%

LarkinCollector

Doh, don't know how I forgot the "Threads are more fun with pictures" rule. Added one to the OP.

maddux69

1998 Leaf Heading for the Hall

1 Roberto Alomar
2 Jeff Bagwell
3 Albert Belle
4 Wade Boggs
5 Barry Bonds
6 Roger Clemens
7 Juan Gonzalez
8 Ken Griffey, Jr.
9 Tony Gwynn
10 Barry Larkin
11 Kenny Lofton
12 Greg Maddux
13 Mark McGwire
14 Paul Molitor
15 Eddie Murray
16 Mike Piazza
17 Cal Ripken, Jr.
18 Ivan Rodriguez
19 Ryne Sandberg
20 Frank Thomas

14/20- 70%

brad31

Added a photo. You were correct much better with pictures.

LarkinCollector

@brad31 said:
Added a photo. You were correct much better with pictures.

Sad it won't let me double like the posts that have added them.