Jim Park Analysis 2023

[madbluboy]

Walsh might steal it.

[crashlander]

Walsh might steal it.

Not impossible. It is damned close at the moment.

[crashlander]

There are 3 guys who are so close than the result will be affected by anyone else voting. I will leave the thread open until tomorrow. Please, vote. It makes a considerable difference!

[crashlander]

AFL 1st Preliminary Final: Carlton vs Melbourne
Alas, we couldn't put it together for 4 quarters. A disappointing way to finisha year or marvels. Now to put it altogether in 2024.

Trends:
[1] There were 12 voters this week, still fewer than I hoped, but much better than it could have been. It appeared to be something of an effort to vote after the disappointment.
Please do take the time to vote: it makes our statistics a lot more reliable and, more importantly, it shows how active we are on the forum.

[2] The rating was a 8.78, which is an B-. Considering that we lost, it tells you a fair bit about the heart of our team.

[3] 15 players managed a mention again this week, which shows just how we've played for the last couple of months. Just about everyone had a contribution. Since I've been doing this we've never been this consistent all over the board as we've been in the last half of the season.

[4] The average vote this week was 30. I still think this is dodgy, but I can't find where any error might be.

[5] 4 players managed 100 votes or more this week. We used only get that in big wins, now it is the norm. Tells about how we've developed as a team.

[6] Sam Walsh managed a massive 410 votes to be BOG this week. He had a brilliant finals series and really shows how good he can really be.
Marchbank came in second with 209 votes, something I don't think he has done before.

[7] 1 player, Sam Walsh managed votes from everyone this week. A number of others garnered a lot of support, but nobody stuck out to everybody else.

[8] It wasn't a great game from our youngsters this week. They did their best, but ... Ollie Hollands managed to garner votes.

[9] This round it was our defence that stood out. We managed to keep our opposition to a losing score, but couldn't manage to kick one ourselves. Our forwards were not as affective as they have been, not our mids.

Votes:
Walsh, Sam  410
Marchbank, Caleb  209
McGovern, Mitchell  159
Newman, Nicholas  121
Weitering, Jacob  83
Jordan Boyd  83
Saad, Adam  61
McKay, Harrison  61
Acres, Blake  49
Hollands, Oliver  30
Docherty, Sam  27
Cottrell, Matthew  23
Cripps, Patrick  19
Hewett, George  15
Martin, Jack  11
Cerra, Adam  4

[crashlander]

And, here we go:
The winner of the Jim Park Award for 2023 is:
Sam Walsh!
Yes, Walsh has come from the clouds to steal the Jim Park with a fantastic finals series. He scored a total of 3193 votes.

Then:
3145 - Curnow, Charles
3127 - Cerra, Adam
3069 - Newman, Nicholas

I cannot remember a top 4 vote getters being so close before.

After them:
2777 - Weitering, Jacob
2487 - Cripps, Patrick
2298 - Docherty, Sam
2159 - Acres, Blake
A very solid group who performed well over the year.

[crashlander]

Complete voting:
3193 - Walsh, Sam
3145 - Curnow, Charles
3127 - Cerra, Adam
3069 - Newman, Nicholas
2777 - Weitering, Jacob
2487 - Cripps, Patrick
2298 - Docherty, Sam
2159 - Acres, Blake
1210 - de Koning, Tom
1109 - Hewett, George
1097 - McKay, Harrison
997 - Saad, Adam
994 - McGovern, Mitchell
839 - Silvagni, Jack
604 - Kemp, Brodie
544 - Cottrell, Matthew
504 - Young, Lewis
495 - Martin, Jack
480 - Kennedy, Matthew
459 - Motlop, Jesse
394 - Hollands, Oliver
385 - Curnow, Edward
372 - Owies, Matthew
361 - Pittonet, Marc
291 - Dow, Patrick
219 - Marchbank, Caleb
218 - Cincotta, Alex
195 - Fisher, Zac
122 - Jordan Boyd
86 - Cuningham, David
67 - Durdin, Corey
63 - Fogarty, Lachlan

[PaulP]

It's a pretty good top 10. Some may quibble about the order, but as a collective, they probably were our 10 best players over the season.

Thanks for all your work on this Stephen. Great stuff.

[LP]

[member=58]crashlander[/member]‍ Thanks for all the work.

So happy to see Newman up there in the rankings, long overdue.

[Sub-Zero]

A Brownlow medallist in waiting is Walsh. Congratulations and in particular for someone who missed about ten games or so, in our best season in a generation.
To the podium places in C. Curnow and Cerra, career-best years. Well-deserved spots there. Newman, unlucky to miss out, same same.
To everyone else here and maybe though unlikely not, thanks for your contributions in a wonderful year for the team.
Crashlander, I'll be the grammar police here and say you need to swap Jordan Boyd's name around to be written down like everyone else's. Last name first. As they do with the East Asian names.

[crashlander]

A Brownlow medallist in waiting is Walsh. Congratulations and in particular for someone who missed about ten games or so, in our best season in a generation.
To the podium places in C. Curnow and Cerra, career-best years. Well-deserved spots there. Newman, unlucky to miss out, same same.
To everyone else here and maybe though unlikely not, thanks for your contributions in a wonderful year for the team.
Crashlander, I'll be the grammar police here and say you need to swap Jordan Boyd's name around to be written down like everyone else's. Last name first. As they do with the East Asian names.

Indeed. It will be something I fix for the 2024 season.