According to Wiki
The voting system as of the 2017 AFL season consists of five coaches, giving each player a ranking from zero to five after each match. Players can receive a maximum of 25 votes for a game.[[(Crichton Medal - Wikipedia)
Not sure if this year was the same.
Clearly talking about how stunned we’ll be when Tippa runs out in a ■■■■■■■ purple jumper.
very poor to get it so wrong throughout the night
looking at Twitter there were comments posted about it, so media team not paying attention.
Someone clearly made some errors in the 2022crichton.xlsx spreadsheet.
Which is odd. Essendon has been so pragmatic about spreadsheets in the past…
I was hoping that Mason Redman was going to win, he had a very good year when the backline was under so much pressure, but I’m really happy for Peter Wright.
What a load of crap. You’d come on here and hear how well Lav played, and you’d think back and say Rids had the tougher opponent, and did a better job.
Saying that though, they definitely didn’t play Rids in his best position.
I’d say they just screwed up the system, spreadsheet, whatever and just couldn’t fix it on the fly.
Guelfi had a good year but better than Redman? I don’t think so.
So who actually won? /s
With all due respect to Guelfi and Will Snelling (players who I admire and who deserve some recognition), the fact Guelfi finished ahead of Redman this year and Snelling ahead of Stringer last year raises some serious questions about those awarding the votes…
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who thinks Redman wasn’t our best or second best player this year. I’m really scratching my head as to how he finished 4th.
Some of those 50m penalty brain fades I’m thinking.
it couldn’t have been the same this year.
Most years the top 3 are well above 300 votes for the season if not 350-400.
This year it was 230??
The facts are, its harder to play forward than on the ball or back. 20 forward possessions is greater than 20 back or on-ball possessions.
What is the ratio? At a guess, 1:1.5. Its good to see that votes at the EFC seem to reflect this….nearly all forward possessions are usually physically contested for after all
After they announced Guelfi & Merrett, I thought Redman had it 
So where’s Scott’s speech upload EFC
Out of interest sake - here’s how Blitz voted on the year. Obviously it’s not a like-for-like system, but interesting to see the fans vs the coaches & where they saw it all.
Also shout-out to @Alan_Noonan_10 who does a great job collating the votes for the Nobby each year.
The most interesting thing to me is that Blitz thought Shiel had a better year than the coaches did. Never in a million years would I have thought that would be the case.
Well done to 2MP who put together a very good year, well above our outlay for him
That top 10 is so depressing though, what an awful year we had.
