FootyGuy13
That Guy in the Back Corner
- Feb 21, 2018
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After getting a total of 0 questions about why I hadn't done this again, I've decided to start a thread about how I'm doing this again. I've been doing this the whole time actually but who cares about a Best-and-Fairest until halfway through the counting?
So now we've had half the season simulated and we've had people ask about who the next admin will be, whether tackles are relevant to winning and what da ladder doin'? So there's no better time to bring back what is truly held dear to the league and give people a reason to brag about how awesome Mobbs' computer thinks they are. Will it be the same result as last season or will someone else's pool room get the award?
Now, the last time I did this, I was correct in my prediction. That was great for the credentials of this and the effort got me into the Top 20 in the beez, but I don't think my prediction of the winner being 7 votes ahead when they didn't get the honour until the last round was an "accurate call". So, even though I said I wasn't going to try and improve upon the method, I'm going to try and improve upon the method.
The new method, in theory, should be more likely to predict what the sim produces in terms of votes but the old method is still around and has been renamed to be the Coaches Votes. That way, we can still give out the 3-2-1 votes but also show how close everyone else is to stealing votes away and see who is dominating games. Who knows, maybe the old system is better.
Now, for an explanation: The Mobbs Medal is the Sweet Football Association's version of the Brownlow, the sim has an algorithm to figure out who the best player is in a simulated game and gives out 3 votes to the best player, 2 votes to the second best and 1 vote to 3rd. Throughout the season the best players should be gathering votes consistently and in the end, the player with the most votes is deemed the best in the league.
The Coaches Votes is usually done by having a coach from both teams do the same thing but starting with 5 votes for 1st and going down to 1 vote for 5th with a player getting a maximum of 10 votes in a game but here, I've taken the old system and given it this job as I realised midway through last season that it works better giving out 2 sets of votes instead of trying to work together for 1.
So now we've had half the season simulated and we've had people ask about who the next admin will be, whether tackles are relevant to winning and what da ladder doin'? So there's no better time to bring back what is truly held dear to the league and give people a reason to brag about how awesome Mobbs' computer thinks they are. Will it be the same result as last season or will someone else's pool room get the award?
Now, the last time I did this, I was correct in my prediction. That was great for the credentials of this and the effort got me into the Top 20 in the beez, but I don't think my prediction of the winner being 7 votes ahead when they didn't get the honour until the last round was an "accurate call". So, even though I said I wasn't going to try and improve upon the method, I'm going to try and improve upon the method.
The new method, in theory, should be more likely to predict what the sim produces in terms of votes but the old method is still around and has been renamed to be the Coaches Votes. That way, we can still give out the 3-2-1 votes but also show how close everyone else is to stealing votes away and see who is dominating games. Who knows, maybe the old system is better.
Now, for an explanation: The Mobbs Medal is the Sweet Football Association's version of the Brownlow, the sim has an algorithm to figure out who the best player is in a simulated game and gives out 3 votes to the best player, 2 votes to the second best and 1 vote to 3rd. Throughout the season the best players should be gathering votes consistently and in the end, the player with the most votes is deemed the best in the league.
The Coaches Votes is usually done by having a coach from both teams do the same thing but starting with 5 votes for 1st and going down to 1 vote for 5th with a player getting a maximum of 10 votes in a game but here, I've taken the old system and given it this job as I realised midway through last season that it works better giving out 2 sets of votes instead of trying to work together for 1.
TL;DR This is returning, things are different/improved/added upon and someone might win too!
