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24 Feb 2006, 08:13
Statement, written by Michael Robinson
BigFooty AFL Player of the Year 2006
Thanks for participating in what will be an entertaining part of BigFooty in season 2006. Over the last few years, BigFooty has had several attempts of a regular voting of the AFL season, but hasn’t lasted, mostly due to lack of organisation and the inconsistency in the process. On 1 February 2006, I decided to make this work, and my idea consisted of a limited number of voters to be able to participate, and have an even amount of voters who support each of the 16 clubs, which will cancel out bias votes, and inconsistency in votes also. The following information is all you need to know of what is expected of you to do during the season.
What Voters Have To Do
• A total of 96 members will be participating, 6 members from each of the 16 clubs. The participating members are listed below, so you know who else will be tagging along on this.
• All votes will be given in a 5-4-3-2-1 format, 5 being to the best player on the field, 1 being to the fifth best player on the field.
• Votes will be for the entire match and all 44 players can be chosen for votes, therefore, you will not only vote for players from the club you are a participant of
• All 6 of the members of the participating team will be required to vote, so that includes the emergency voter.
• You are required to only vote for ONE match per week. The match you will be allocated to vote in is the match your club of who you are a participant of, is playing.
• There will be a deadline in which the votes have to be submitted by. This deadline is at 5pm every Monday during the season. For matches in Rounds 1, 3, 4 and 11, votes will have a deadline at 5pm Wednesday. On Round 12, it is a split round, and votes will have a deadline of the 5pm Monday, June 26.
• You will have to submit the votes into a designated thread in the Gameday Board.
Emergency Voter
• If you are an emergency voter, you are still required to vote and meet the deadlines. Your votes are still vital in cases of: A standard voter does not submit their votes by the deadline; if a count-back is required then the emergencies votes will be used as an indicator.
How the Votes are tallied
• A total of 10 votes will be counted. These votes will be tallied up to get a total for each player that received a vote, and then again, minimised down to a best 5-4-3-2-1. 5 votes to the player who received the most total amount of votes etc.
• In the case of the same total to two or more players a count-back will be used. The count-back will involve the emergency voter(s) votes, and if it is still the case, it will be worked out on the player with the most amount of best case of votes in the votes cast. If still a case, then I will choose who gets the higher priority.
Once the votes are tallied
• Once the votes are tallied they will not be put on BigFooty due to confidentiality. However, the 10-12 votes for each game can be seen, but not the total. Reasons this will happen is to leave out chances of a bias situation leading into the final rounds, and therefore votes can decide the outcome in the last rounds in a simple way of cheating.
• On Monday September 4, votes will be submitted in a thread round by round in a count, similar to the Brownlow Medal. This date has been set on the first Monday following the Home and Away Season.
Hopefully this can be a success.
A trial will be run during the NAB Pre-Season Cup, Week One. All voters are required to participate in the trial!
BigFooty AFL Player of the Year 2006
Thanks for participating in what will be an entertaining part of BigFooty in season 2006. Over the last few years, BigFooty has had several attempts of a regular voting of the AFL season, but hasn’t lasted, mostly due to lack of organisation and the inconsistency in the process. On 1 February 2006, I decided to make this work, and my idea consisted of a limited number of voters to be able to participate, and have an even amount of voters who support each of the 16 clubs, which will cancel out bias votes, and inconsistency in votes also. The following information is all you need to know of what is expected of you to do during the season.
What Voters Have To Do
• A total of 96 members will be participating, 6 members from each of the 16 clubs. The participating members are listed below, so you know who else will be tagging along on this.
• All votes will be given in a 5-4-3-2-1 format, 5 being to the best player on the field, 1 being to the fifth best player on the field.
• Votes will be for the entire match and all 44 players can be chosen for votes, therefore, you will not only vote for players from the club you are a participant of
• All 6 of the members of the participating team will be required to vote, so that includes the emergency voter.
• You are required to only vote for ONE match per week. The match you will be allocated to vote in is the match your club of who you are a participant of, is playing.
• There will be a deadline in which the votes have to be submitted by. This deadline is at 5pm every Monday during the season. For matches in Rounds 1, 3, 4 and 11, votes will have a deadline at 5pm Wednesday. On Round 12, it is a split round, and votes will have a deadline of the 5pm Monday, June 26.
• You will have to submit the votes into a designated thread in the Gameday Board.
Emergency Voter
• If you are an emergency voter, you are still required to vote and meet the deadlines. Your votes are still vital in cases of: A standard voter does not submit their votes by the deadline; if a count-back is required then the emergencies votes will be used as an indicator.
How the Votes are tallied
• A total of 10 votes will be counted. These votes will be tallied up to get a total for each player that received a vote, and then again, minimised down to a best 5-4-3-2-1. 5 votes to the player who received the most total amount of votes etc.
• In the case of the same total to two or more players a count-back will be used. The count-back will involve the emergency voter(s) votes, and if it is still the case, it will be worked out on the player with the most amount of best case of votes in the votes cast. If still a case, then I will choose who gets the higher priority.
Once the votes are tallied
• Once the votes are tallied they will not be put on BigFooty due to confidentiality. However, the 10-12 votes for each game can be seen, but not the total. Reasons this will happen is to leave out chances of a bias situation leading into the final rounds, and therefore votes can decide the outcome in the last rounds in a simple way of cheating.
• On Monday September 4, votes will be submitted in a thread round by round in a count, similar to the Brownlow Medal. This date has been set on the first Monday following the Home and Away Season.
Hopefully this can be a success.
A trial will be run during the NAB Pre-Season Cup, Week One. All voters are required to participate in the trial!