2021 WTF Player of the Year

[bigsiro]

Haven’t looked at the table but surely the podium is Stefano, Laurie and Douhei.

Overpaid player of the year: Brooks

I swear I’m a marquee player award: Moses Mbye

Oxygen thief of the year award: David Nofoaluma

Let’s have a coffee award which acknowledges not hard earned thirst: BJ Leilua

I look hungover award: Roberts

I can’t believe I’m a first grader award and I know it: Zac Cini

I’m here because of my dad award: Tommy Talau

Brilliant.

 

[BAGNF05]

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


Can you imagine those logistics? Who on the forum decides that only one player gets 3 points? How is it done?

whoever organises is tallies the votes 48 hours after teh match and the results are published. Really quite straight forward.
Not sure how tallying votes in comments in threads and talyying up every single vote is any easier to keep track of.


So the highest 3 tallied players from the weekend get a 3, 2 and 1? Actually better when you think about it.

Not if you’re consistently fourth best. There isn’t a perfect system and it’s very subjective. Well done for organising it, I feel it’s a pretty clear representation of our biggest contributors, despite the Brooks hate.

 

[Harvey]

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.

Sack Brooks :grinning:

 

[hobbo1]

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


Can you imagine those logistics? Who on the forum decides that only one player gets 3 points? How is it done?

whoever organises is tallies the votes 48 hours after teh match and the results are published. Really quite straight forward.
Not sure how tallying votes in comments in threads and talyying up every single vote is any easier to keep track of.


So the highest 3 tallied players from the weekend get a 3, 2 and 1? Actually better when you think about it.

Gee going off the highest scores in each round Brooks won 6 rounds so 18 points..also polling in other rounds so possibly 2 or 1...Laurie only 3 rounds 9 points...

Imagine

Devastating ?

 

[Tim Sheens]

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


Can you imagine those logistics? Who on the forum decides that only one player gets 3 points? How is it done?

whoever organises is tallies the votes 48 hours after teh match and the results are published. Really quite straight forward.
Not sure how tallying votes in comments in threads and talyying up every single vote is any easier to keep track of.


So the highest 3 tallied players from the weekend get a 3, 2 and 1? Actually better when you think about it.

Gee going off the highest scores in each round Brooks won 6 rounds so 18 points..also polling in other rounds so possibly 2 or 1...Laurie only 3 rounds 9 points...

Imagine

I was chuckling and nearly sniggering as I read those posts above, whilst remembering the (6) being far and away the biggest number in the column, so as to be almost insurmountable.

Seriously though, those tallies are a reasonable representation of our players in 2021. One could shift a few of them up or down a place, but thanks to @hugggarz the table is close enough an appraisal as it is.

 

[mike]

Thanks @HUGGGARZ for doing this and putting it all together. The end result looks about right, despite some joke 3,2,1 posts along the way. Personally I like the current format as it always ends up being just about what we see over the season. Thanks again for doing it.

 

[Alex Seyfarth's #1 Fan]

Here's my theory around the Brooks votes.
1. When Brooks has a good game, the fans come in and do '3 2 1'.
2. When he doesn't have a good game, those people who would normally give Brooks points don't bother to show up to the '3 2 1' thread.
3. People who regularly do their votes will also vote Brooks when he does well.

So basically, there are huge influx of voters when Brooks has a good game. I still feel it's fairly accurate and all balances out in the end. I would personally swap Brooks and Utoikamanu, but would make no other changes to the ranking.

 

[Plisskin]

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.

I wouldn’t call anything he did this year as strong but I concede he played quite well during our run of 3 wins in a month. He would have only potentially polled points during Rounds 10 to 14 surely?
Rd15 Melbourne smashed us and he was diabolical
Rd16 Rabbits smashed us and he topped the missed tackles list then did fist all else.

Still, the fact he is regarded as our top 3 for the year is pretty damning of this roster as I rate his season as a whole at 3.5/10.

 

[CarltonDry]

Haven’t looked at the table but surely the podium is Stefano, Laurie and Douhei.

Overpaid player of the year: Brooks

I swear I’m a marquee player award: Moses Mbye

Oxygen thief of the year award: David Nofoaluma

Let’s have a coffee award which acknowledges not hard earned thirst: BJ Leilua

I look hungover award: Roberts

I can’t believe I’m a first grader award and I know it: Zac Cini

I’m here because of my dad award: Tommy Talau

Nailed it 🤣