Schedule
This is pretty much already set in stone: start in February with 1970, one month per year until we hit November for 1979. Then the final poll voting will take place in December/next January.
Monthly Point System
This year, Moonbeam would give points to an infinite number of songs/albums on individual lists. He used this formula:
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300/(rank + 2)
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Place Points
1 50
2 40
3 30
4 20
5 15
6 10
7 9
8 8
9 7
10 6
11 5
12 4
13 3
14 2
15 1
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Place Points
1 75
2 60
3 50
4 45
5 40
6 35
7 30
8 25
9 20
10 15
11 10
12 9
13 8
14 7
15 6
16 5
17 4
18 3
19 2
20 1
Moonbeam expanded our typical top 150s to 200 albums and 300 songs this year. It may be too soon to tell, but there is definitely a little bit of concern that this will lead to less lists (or at least less complete lists) being submitted. And, again, I don't know if I'll have the kind of time to do a top 200/300 result at this time next year. As in years past, I was thinking we stick with letting the top 10 each month automatically qualify for the final poll, and then the other 50 are wild cards. I liked how the wild cards were determined this year (instead of using raw point values, the points were normalized based on the number of lists submitted in a given year). So I'm leaning strongly towards keeping that system in place.
If Others Want to Help/Take Over, Speak Up
I'm not married to handling this poll. Ultimately, I just want to have the best poll possible. And if that means letting somebody with more free time run it instead of me, I'm fine with that.
That's all I can think of for now, I would love to hear some input from the forum!