If you truly want to debate about historical all time Australian BB manager rankings or even recent rankings, there are plenty of managers missing from that list.
Missing in all time:
Tier 1: Eagles, Shoei, Shepard
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Tier 2: Name all those that made the ABBL/Cup Finals or have longevity in the ABBL.
Missing in recent times:
Slam, Chumunga, Noodles, Bogans
Depends on how you judge a manager in ranking. Is it performance? Is it community work? Combination of both?
Okay a bit of "supplier selection 101"
Step 1Selection (eligibility) criteria
Agree on a selection criteria to allow a Manager to be considered
i.e. A total of 5 seasons in the ABBL and or the Manager to have won either the ABBL or Cup Trophy
Step 2 (Optional)Shortlist
Reduce the candidates down to a manageable list (perhaps 10 or 12 at most)
Can be done by popular opinion or by making eligibilty criteria harder . i.e. must have stayed 5 seasons in the ABBL
consecutively or won 2 trophies instead of 1
Step 3Work out marking criterias and weightings
Work out the criteria as to how these Managers will be judged and give each criteria weighting.
i.e. Success = 200% Longivity = 150% Tactical nous (in games)= 100% Economic nous = 100% Activity in communities = 50% etc etc etc (possibly have 5 to 10 criteria each with its own weighting)
Nice if the criterias when multiplied by weightings add up to allow a maximum possible score of 100
Step 4Selection of judges
Decide upon a group of judges (ideally of varying backgrounds and maybe numbering 3 or 5, but also who are able to fairly judge all candidates- many of whom may not be as active as what they once were)
Step 5 Scoring
Each judges scores each Manager that passed the selection criteria (in step 1) or short list (step 2 if applicable)
They do this by marking each Manager out of 10 for each of the individual criterias (from step 2)
i.e
(Judge) Yoda marked candidate Whitebeard the following;
Success 8 out of 10
Longivity 7 out of 10
Tactical nous 6 out of 10
Economic nous 7 out of 10
Activity in community 6 out of 10
etc
Step 6 Multiply by weightings
Yodas score of Whitebeard was
Success 8 x 2 = 16
Longivity 7 x 1.5 = 10.5
Tactical nous 6 x 1 = 6
Economic nous 7 x 1 = 7
Activity in community 6 x .5 = 3
etc
Step 7Add up judges scores for each manager
i.e.
Candidate Whitebeard
Judge Yoda 73
Judge Dire 80
Judge Bobby Locke 78
Judge Hadders 67
Judge Avalon Jets 72
Whitebeard scores 370
V other candidates scores
Last edited by Sid Vicious at 1/26/2013 7:57:19 AM