2017 Player of the Year Leaderboard

[ZoBlitz]

Round 22 Results:

MEL 16.8.104 - BL 14.7.91 at the MCG

5 Votes - Dayne Beams (142 votes)
4 Votes - Josh Walker (126 votes)
3 Votes - Darcy Gardiner (89 votes) [first Player of the Year votes awarded]
2 Votes - Dayne Zorko (87 votes)
1 Vote - Lewis Taylor (80 votes)

Leaderboard after Round 22:

47 - Dayne Beams (new joint leader)
47 - Dayne Zorko
32 - Tom Rockliff
21 - Lewis Taylor
20 - Daniel Rich
16 - Alex Witherden [best rookie]
16 - Stefan Martin
13 - Harris Andrews
13 - Ryan Bastinac
13 - Eric Hipwood
12 - Jarrod Berry
10 - Josh Walker
8 - Daniel McStay
8 - Mitch Robinson
8 - Nick Robertson
7 - Ben Keays
6 - Jake Barrett
5 - Rhys Mathieson
5 - Ryan Lester
4 - Sam Mayes
3 - Marco Paparone
3 - Darcy Gardiner
1 - Tom Cutler

 

[ZoBlitz]

Round 23 Results:

BL 11.13.79 - NM 19.16.130 at the Gabba

5 Votes - Daniel Rich (94 votes)
4 Votes - Alex Witherden (73 votes)
3 Votes - Dayne Zorko (67 votes)
2 Votes - Darcy Gardiner (33 votes)
1 Vote - Rhys Mathieson (31 votes)

Final Leaderboard:

Winner - 50 votes - Dayne Zorko! (Back-to-back with the same number of votes!)
Runner Up - 47 votes - Dayne Beams
Third Place - 32 votes - Tom Rockliff
Best Rookie - 20 votes - Alex Witherden

25 - Daniel Rich
21 - Lewis Taylor
20 - Alex Witherden [best rookie]
16 - Stefan Martin
13 - Harris Andrews
13 - Ryan Bastinac
13 - Eric Hipwood
12 - Jarrod Berry
10 - Josh Walker
8 - Daniel McStay
8 - Mitch Robinson
8 - Nick Robertson
7 - Ben Keays
6 - Rhys Mathieson
6 - Jake Barrett
5 - Darcy Gardiner
5 - Ryan Lester
4 - Sam Mayes
3 - Marco Paparone
1 - Tom Cutler

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

Is Witherden, with 20 votes in about 10 games the best effort from a first year player since Geoff Southby in 1970?

 

[ZoBlitz]

Is Witherden, with 20 votes in about 10 games the best effort from a first year player since Geoff Southby in 1970?

Have to check the paper-based Bigfooty archives.

 

[dlanod]

Have to check the paper-based Bigfooty archives.

I thought we just used Mr Ripper's memory for anything useless like that.

 

[jackess]

Witherden getting so many more votes than Mayes shows the flaw in not giving everybody votes like in the B&Fs.

 

[spotthedog1]

Witherden getting so many more votes than Mayes shows the flaw in not giving everybody votes like in the B&Fs.

Either that, or Witherden had a better season than Mayes. ;-)

 

[Jivlain]

Witherden getting so many more votes than Mayes shows the flaw in not giving everybody votes like in the B&Fs.

I don't know it's really a flaw, just a different measure. If we had, say, been voting top 10s, Mayes would have made a lot of them. A substantial majority of them I suspect. He definitely played his role. Witherden was more spectacular but played fewer.

Voting top 10s would probably make us more accurate at predicting the M-M medal order, but is that the goal?

 

[jackess]

I don't know it's really a flaw, just a different measure. If we had, say, been voting top 10s, Mayes would have made a lot of them. A substantial majority of them I suspect. He definitely played his role. Witherden was more spectacular but played fewer.

Voting top 10s would probably make us more accurate at predicting the M-M medal order, but is that the goal?

Goal would be to judge the best player of the year but a more accurate top 10 would be nice too.