2021 WTF Player of the Year

[hugggarz]

Back again for another year is the Tally-Ms with over 4,000 votes counted this season. Votes were down from last year as for two rounds forumers were too disappointed to bother starting a 321 thread at all. :face_with_head_bandage:

Whilst it may have been a lacklustre year on the field there is still plenty to be positive about starting with this years winner, a player who was only chosen by two in the WTF POTY Prediction [thread](https://weststigersforum.com/topic/31911/wtf-player-of-the-year-prediction?_=1631428641237) at the start of the season. Props to @Fraze23 and @jrtiger.

Speaking of positives, Stef Utoikamanu earned the most impressive display (highest score) for his 160RM/36 tackle effort in the Rd21 win against the Dogs. He was also the most consistent scorer for the year (most scoring rounds), just ahead of Twal, Brooks and Laurie.



Getting the jump on the WT internal voting and the new WT member voting this year so will be interesting to see how it aligns with those results.

I threw in last years final votes alongside for comparison.

 The Rds column was the amount of rounds the player topped the voting.

 

[Demps]

https://weststigersforum.com/topic/32943/2021-bulletproof-tiger-award/26

 

[JC99]

Great stuff mate!

Who was the one person who gave Pauga a vote 😂

 

[boonboon]

Interesting that 6 of last yrs top 13 didnt play nrl for us this year including 3 of the top 6

 

[Le Tiger]

On this, LL and Nof have had the biggest drop YOY. Nofa from 586 to 44 is a massive drop and really illustrates how much his form as dropped since re-signing.

Douehi, Brooks, Twal and Seyfarth are the big improvers since last year.

Congrats on the win Daine!

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Going off that, the consensus on Brooks is that he had a solid year.

 

[JC99]

Going off that, the consensus on Brooks is that he had a solid year.

Brooks had shockers and I saw people giving him 3 points, the blind faith is unbelievable

 

[earl]

Going off that, the consensus on Brooks is that he had a solid year.

He was good for large chunks of the year but his finish was poor. He doesn't seem to close games out for us.

Nofo had a really poor year especially compared to last season.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

The less said about Tamou the better.

 

[hugggarz]

Going off that, the consensus on Brooks is that he had a solid year.

Short of posting graphs the totals can never really show the full story.
Brooks had a very strong mid-season (scoring 83% of his points in Rd10-16) and few points outside of those rounds. Another example is Stef who was very strong late season (Rd 18 onwards) , yet they look comparable on the final standings.

 

[bigsiro]

Going off that, the consensus on Brooks is that he had a solid year.

Brooks had shockers and I saw people giving him 3 points, the blind faith is unbelievable

Yep the voting for Brooks this year (and recent years) simply ruined the chance of this having more meaning. I wish it did but I echo what @JC99 said. It got to a point of absurdity and so I admit I often gave him 3 pts as a derisory joke. I reckon many did.
Sorry @hugggarz, I did want to take it seriously.

 

[Pascoes_barber]

Going off that, the consensus on Brooks is that he had a solid year.

Brooks had shockers and I saw people giving him 3 points, the blind faith is unbelievable

I thought people were only doing that as an obvious joke?

I was…

 

[BAGNF05]

Back again for another year is the Tally-Ms with over 4,000 votes counted this season. Votes were down from last year as for two rounds forumers were too disappointed to bother starting a 321 thread at all. :face_with_head_bandage:

Whilst it may have been a lacklustre year on the field there is still plenty to be positive about starting with this years winner, a player who was only chosen by two in the WTF POTY Prediction [thread](https://weststigersforum.com/topic/31911/wtf-player-of-the-year-prediction?_=1631428641237) at the start of the season. Props to @Fraze23 and @jrtiger.

Speaking of positives, Stef Utoikamanu earned the most impressive display (highest score) for his 160RM/36 tackle effort in the Rd21 win against the Dogs. He was also the most consistent scorer for the year (most scoring rounds), just ahead of Twal, Brooks and Laurie.



Getting the jump on the WT internal voting and the new WT member voting this year so will be interesting to see how it aligns with those results.

I threw in last years final votes alongside for comparison.

 The Rds column was the amount of rounds the player topped the voting.

The forum nailed our top 5 players with daylight to 6th. How people still rate Luciano is beyond me. Are any clubs looking for 25 players on the cheap?

 

[Geo]

Back again for another year is the Tally-Ms with over 4,000 votes counted this season. Votes were down from last year as for two rounds forumers were too disappointed to bother starting a 321 thread at all. :face_with_head_bandage:

Whilst it may have been a lacklustre year on the field there is still plenty to be positive about starting with this years winner, a player who was only chosen by two in the WTF POTY Prediction [thread](https://weststigersforum.com/topic/31911/wtf-player-of-the-year-prediction?_=1631428641237) at the start of the season. Props to @Fraze23 and @jrtiger.

Speaking of positives, Stef Utoikamanu earned the most impressive display (highest score) for his 160RM/36 tackle effort in the Rd21 win against the Dogs. He was also the most consistent scorer for the year (most scoring rounds), just ahead of Twal, Brooks and Laurie.



Getting the jump on the WT internal voting and the new WT member voting this year so will be interesting to see how it aligns with those results.

I threw in last years final votes alongside for comparison.

 The Rds column was the amount of rounds the player topped the voting.

Thanks for putting this together…

 

[TheDaBoss]

Going off that, the consensus on Brooks is that he had a solid year.

Brooks had shockers and I saw people giving him 3 points, the blind faith is unbelievable

I thought people were only doing that as an obvious joke?

I was…

Yea i did see a lot of people taking the piss in the 321...

Maybe for next year we could take it a bit more seriously even if it is a bad performance so we can have a consistent total tally at the end

 

[happy_tiger]

I can't remember how many times this season when giving the last vote out that you almost had to put 15 names in a hat a draw one out .......

Pretty bad when you can't find 3 positives in a performance ......

 

[balmain boy]

How on earth is this calculated? Surely we'd use a similar format to the dally ms, where the winner of the round gets 3 points etc? This appears to be based on total points which would just be bizarre

 

[Geo]

How on earth is this calculated? Surely we'd use a similar format to the dally ms, where the winner of the round gets 3 points etc? This appears to be based on total points which would just be bizarre

Feel free to do it your way anytime..

 

[balmain boy]

How on earth is this calculated? Surely we'd use a similar format to the dally ms, where the winner of the round gets 3 points etc? This appears to be based on total points which would just be bizarre

Feel free to do it your way anytime..

I never even knew this was a thing.

But to ensure the integrity of the data you can only assign a pre determined value for the best performing players each round. Otherwise stats get skewed by emotion and individual matches.

 

[Needaname]

How on earth is this calculated? Surely we'd use a similar format to the dally ms, where the winner of the round gets 3 points etc? This appears to be based on total points which would just be bizarre

Feel free to do it your way anytime..

Why don’t we do an online form with a rating of 1 to 17 for each game?