And the 2008 Nick's BB Gavin Brown Medal goes to...

Alec. J. Hidell · Post by **Alec. J. Hidell** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:14 am

I tipped this

DaVe86 · Post by **DaVe86** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:29 am

Edge of your seat stuff.

Think you've done a great job David. Stick with the 3-2-1 format....reckon anyone who puts in the votes wrongly just gets ignored. The majority of people give their votes proparly, so just take those into account.

Congrats to Dane Swan. Really, thinking about it, thats a huge achievement because the votes of Collingwood supporters right across Australia have been tallied for each round.

cfc2009-10-11-12 · Post by **cfc2009-10-11-12** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:58 am

I think it also reflects on how the B&F will go as well...

Captain_MyCaptain · Post by **Captain_MyCaptain** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:36 pm

By the way, I think the idea of a poll is worth doing. I'm quite happy with the 3-2-1 format, as it's pretty easy to tally, and reflects the brownlow voting system, but I reckon it'd be fine to try something different, as long as everyone knows what's going on.

Agreed. Lets do a poll. Personally I'd prefer a top 5 instead of 3.

Anyways well done Swanny, a well deserved winner.
Shame we can't organize some kind of prize, like a dinner for 2 or something.

Kingswood · Post by **Kingswood** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:42 pm

dont need to send him a prize but would be nice to let him know about it

kickit2me · Post by **kickit2me** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:07 pm

Well done Swanny, well done David.

As for a voting re-jig..how about a total of, let's say, 30 votes can be awarded each week with a maximum of 5 individual vote getters.

ie:
Swan 8
Davis 7
Cloke 6
Medhurst 5
Didak 4

Just a thought.

John Wren · Post by **John Wren** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:10 pm

Captain_MyCaptain wrote:
By the way, I think the idea of a poll is worth doing. I'm quite happy with the 3-2-1 format, as it's pretty easy to tally, and reflects the brownlow voting system, but I reckon it'd be fine to try something different, as long as everyone knows what's going on.
Agreed. Lets do a poll. Personally I'd prefer a top 5 instead of 3.

Anyways well done Swanny, a well deserved winner.
Shame we can't organize some kind of prize, like a dinner for 2 or something.

a dinner with dtm and wo5.

Post by **David** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:40 pm

Kingswood wrote:
David wrote:lol, about 2 hours last night, after I'd compiled all the votes to R.11 a few weeks ago. Didn't take too long.

Pied Piper wrote:How did you deal with all those posters who gave their 1 vote to "everyone else", or to multiple players?
I gave the players a vote each, within reason. Where people went 3,2,2,1, I gave 3 votes to BOG, 2 votes each to the tied players, and then no further votes after that - after all, the point is to recognise the 3 best players of the match, and that's how I attempted to interpret each poster's votes.

By the way, I think the idea of a poll is worth doing. I'm quite happy with the 3-2-1 format, as it's pretty easy to tally, and reflects the brownlow voting system, but I reckon it'd be fine to try something different, as long as everyone knows what's going on.
what about rating each player that played a score from 10. might be tougher to do to go through each one but could be done in a spreadsheet easily.

Nice idea, but impossible in practise. I do something like that now and then in the post-match thread, but it's simply too time-consuming for many people to bother... thus, we're going to have far less people contributing, and you could even conceivably have weeks where we're going off the votes of one poster, or even none.

I don't have any problem with a top 5 though, it would be nice to see a few more players recognised for good performances.

As for a medal, I've thought in the past that a small engraved trophy (you can buy them from stores for next to nothing) presented by Joffa and/or a few others, as a note of appreciation from the entire board, wouldn't go astray. I'm sure the club wouldn't mind the fans getting an opportunity to show their gratitude in a small way like this.

3rd degree · Post by **3rd degree** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:44 pm

We have to make up some Medals for the 3 best! who's in??

Post by **David** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:45 pm

hear hear

HAL · Post by **HAL** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:49 pm

Is that your final answer?

Jace · Post by **Jace** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:52 pm

Great winner & should be our poll leader in the Brownlow too.

Yet somehow, not AA material..... Not even top 40... Shame on you AFL.

Is he our next captain? Shown plenty of leading by example this year after a rocky start to his career.

kambarker · Post by **kambarker** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:02 pm

Congratualations Swannie. A worthy winner.

Thank you Dave for a job well done.

Johnson#26 · Post by **Johnson#26** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:27 pm

David, well done on the counting, mate, great work. And congratulations to Swanny, too. A great footballer.

Northern Pie · Post by **Northern Pie** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:41 pm

lets take this further, I will chip in $10 to get a medal struck for the winner and the have it sent to the club....it may get thrown in the bin but hell it might actually become pride of place in someones top drawer at home...what do ya reckon?

Cheers

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