Data for the Hall of Fame line #

assets/uth/hof-line.json comes from Baseball Reference, pulled 8 November 2026:

• the JAWS leaderboard for each position (/leaders/jaws_C.shtml through jaws_RP.shtml), saved as jaws/<POS>.html
• the Hall of Fame list (/awards/hof.shtml), saved as jaws/hof.html, which says how each inductee got in

parse.py reads the leaderboards into jaws/jaws.json. build_data.py writes the chart data. A separate step turns the Hall of Fame list into jaws/hofmap.json (player ID to category and committee); see the action record. Run both scripts from the folder that holds jaws/.

The Hall standards (the average Hall of Famer's JAWS at each position) are in build_data.py. They come from the players' Baseball Reference pages and reproduce the post's numbers: Reuschel 92, Simmons 96, Nettles 98, Lofton 96, Olerud 91, Whitaker 100.

Rules:

• Players marked as not yet eligible (bold on Baseball Reference) are left out.
• "Hall of Famer" means elected as a player by any committee other than the Negro Leagues committees.
• Negro Leagues inductees are drawn as rings and don't take a seat, because their recorded major league stats are incomplete.
• Managers and executives who also played are drawn but don't count as Hall of Famers.
• Rose and Jackson are tagged as banned.