Professional team sports Hall of Fames are becoming increasingly more difficult to navigate for voters. The NBA has the least amount of controversy, mostly because NBA teams are more dependent on individual players, thus making it easier to determine which ones were the greatest compared to their peers.
But in the NFL and MLB, it’s getting more complicated. Analytics and a rapidly evolving game will make NFL Hall of Fame discussions a crapshoot, specifically as guys like Philip Rivers retire. Baseball is in a similar position. Analytics and an evolving game have already started to make this discussion more difficult.