Talk:World Series Most Valuable Player Award/Archive 1

Picture?
Could use a picture. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Iamhungey (talk • contribs) 23:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC).

MVP?
Could also explain WTF NVP stands for. Most Vacuous Player?. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:45, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * NVP stands for Network Voice Protocol. Why do you ask? Kingturtle (talk) 14:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Requested move
World Series MVP Award → World Series Most Valuable Player Award &mdash; There's no reason to have "MVP" abbreviated in the lead. It's not really controversial; there's just a redirect in the way. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 19:53, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support For reasons outlined above, and to be consistent with lists for other American major leagues: NBA Most Valuable Player Award and National Football League Most Valuable Player Award. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:46, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Major League Baseball All-Star Game MVP Award will need moving as well. I don't really care. Staxringold talkcontribs 05:40, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Brings all of the articles in line: Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award and League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award already follow this format. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 13:12, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm going to go ahead and do it, not too controversial. Staxringold talkcontribs 21:49, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Key
On the key, lets just standardize the thing. Just notate HoFers, shared awards, and maybe active players. Things like winning the LCS MVP or general MVP the same year are more the realm of the lead or notes, not colored table formatting. Staxringold talkcontribs 17:24, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the LCS MVP and WS MVP in the same year is notable (see LCS MVP!), but there's no connection between the MLB MVP and the WS MVP. You don't even have to make the playoffs to win the MLB MVP (and rightly so). We should move the dagger to the HoF per the rest of the lists, remove "Player" from the key (it's totally unnecessary), and make sure that all of the symbols that are naturally majuscule are superscripted (the § and †, especially). If we need an additional symbol, there is always the double dagger, which got ignored in this list, but isn't really necessary anymore. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 14:50, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think we can tag shared awards on the year (as I did in other lists), and migrate the losing-team to a note, but how will you deal with HoFers who win both awards in one postseason? Which mark do they get? Staxringold talkcontribs 14:53, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * See LCS MVP. I tagged the HoF on the name, since it's the player. I tagged the double MVP on the year, since it happened in the year. The losing team gets tagged on the team, since it's a team. I don't know if that will cause any overlap in this list, but it didn't in the other. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 15:33, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, that works nicely. And yes, I think this is mostly academic since there likely isn't any overlap anyways, but we should try to design the table so a losing team WS MVP winner who also won the ALCS MVP and goes into the Hall of Fame works on our table. :) Staxringold talkcontribs 15:35, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If that's the ultimate goal, then we keep all symbols and eliminate one color. Precedent is at the Silver Slugger Award lists, where most leaders were also HoFers, and thus the color for the HoF was eliminated. Here, we would likely eliminate the color for multiple winners in a year. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:03, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Fine with me. Staxringold talkcontribs 16:13, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Now that's what I call consensus! KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:15, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL. Staxringold talkcontribs 16:35, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I had no idea this was happening until now. O well... --  SRE.K.A.L. | L.A.K.ERS ]]  02:02, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Team season linking
Per the following consensus, team names should be linked to the team, not the team season. The season is easily accessible through the team navbox if the reader really needs to get there, and most old team season articles provide no context. The principle of least astonishment says that a link should not go somewhere that is unnecessarily different from the piped statement. KV5 ( Talk  •  Phils ) 01:27, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Details? Who votes? What are the criteria?
The article gives a nice history of WHO has won the award, but is lacking in defining just WHAT it is. I learn from the articles on the Cy Young Award and MLB MVP that the Baseball Writers Association votes for them, but apparently not this one. Who decides on the WS MVP, and how did it start? --Bridgecross (talk) 15:44, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * We don't know, which is why it's not included. They just announce it after the series. Same with the League Championship Series MVP. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 15:51, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * No wait, going through the history of the page there WAS a referenced definition. It just got edited out, no explanation.  Of course they don't "just announce" it, somebody has to decide who it is!  Unless there is any objection I'm putting the deleted line back. --Bridgecross (talk) 15:58, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * There's a definition... but no reference. That's probably why it was deleted. KV5  ( Talk  •  Phils ) 16:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * True, I'm looking around for references but coming up squat. You'd think something so public would have a presence on MLB's site, or somewhere. --Bridgecross (talk) 16:21, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The Baseball Almanac ref you added should be formatted. Plus that's not really a proven RS. Staxringold talkcontribs 16:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Award
Shouldn't the article mention the prize and the car given to the winner? Yoninah (talk) 03:27, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player Award 2019.jpeg

Don Larsen box is (slightly) wrong.
Hello, the Don Larsen box on the right side of the page has some incorrect details. I'd change but I dunno how (yet) and don't wanna mess up the links etc.

Larsen is still the only pitcher to throw a "perfect game" in the World Series. This year the Astros pitching staff threw a "combined no-hitter." Phillies hitters managed at least three walks, thus halting the Astro's chance at a perfect game and leaving Larsen as the only player ever to do so.

Thanks. Trombipulation! (talk) 19:29, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Needs information about voting/selection.
I'm surprised this is a featured list. It doesn't even mention how the winner of the award is selected. Who votes? Is it the BBWAA? How many people are involved? Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 02:59, 2 November 2023 (UTC)