What are peoples thoughts on this?
Do people think it's right that you can bet on the rising star, for me its too subjective and based on supposed expert judges opinion.
Look at the judges, would you actually classify them as football experts?
Gillon McLachlan (chairman), Kevin Sheehan, Kevin Bartlett, Luke Darcy, Andrew Dillon, Danny Frawley, Glen Jakovich, Chris Johnson, Cameron Ling, Matthew Richardson and Warren Tredrea
The main criteria for awarding the medal is "judges vote on output this season and not on potential".
So what is output? Are we talking statistics?
Comparing the two statistically:
McGrath vs Burton
Avg Disposals 19.7 21.3
Disposal efficiency 82% 81%
Meters Gained 196.3 343.1
Av Kicks 8.6 13.4
Av contested possies 5.2 5.1
Av intercept possies 4.9 5.9
Av marks 4 5.7
goals 1 4
av score involvements 3.3 3.5
av tackles 2.7 2.9
av inside 50's 1.1 2.4
av rebounds 2.3 3.8
Burton has McGrath covered in all but 2 of the above criteria and in most cases comfortably, so what is output?
Interestingly not one of the supposed "expert" judges gave Burton 5 votes.
Betting agencies should be paying out on Burton as that result is a disgrace based on the above criteria. Hence why Burton was paying $1.40
Going forward the judges should be forced to explain why they gave the 5,4,3,2,1
I'd love to hear someones thoughts from one of the betting agencies. I'm sure they read this. This result based on the above is a disgrace.