ASC Awards 2017

[Jukes]

Since I'll be sending them out tonight, I'll make the nominations for Boston and Carolina

Boston - Lachie Neale and Dom Sheed
Carolina - Dustin Martin and Dylan Roberton

[Jukes]

Obviously I've sent them out, will give it a few days.

[Jukes]

The results are in!

Most Valuable Player

Winner: Patrick Dangerfield (Anaheim Mighty Ducks) - 40 votes
Runner-up: Dustin Martin (Carolina) - 39 votes
Third: Tom Mitchell (Las Vegas) - 29 votes
Fourth: Matthew Kreuzer (Houston) - 21 votes
Fifth: Clayton Oliver (Chicago) and Matt Crouch (New Brooklyn) - 13 votes

This was a very tight race that went all the way to the end, but Danger has pipped Dusty to grab his second consecutive MVP award by a single vote! Dangerfield averaged 134 from his 18 games this season for the Ducks (including finals), compared to Dusty's 118 average from 21 games for the Panthers, but at least he got to taste premiership captain success. Tom Mitchell was a reasonably close third, while big man Matthew Krezuer was the only non-midfielder to grab a top-five (well, six) placing. Dayne Zorko was the only other player to reach double-digit votes with 12, while the other five nominees had under five votes, with only my boy Stef Martin getting no acclaim - oh well.




Coaches Award

Winner: Patrick Ryder (Chicago Sharks) -29 votes
Runner-up: Michael Hurley (Anaheim) - 28 votes
Third: Dylan Roberton (Carolina) - 24 votes
Fourth: Brad Ebert (Colorado), Jake Lloyd (Las Vegas), and Tom Papley (San Francisco) - 15 votes

Another very close race, with Chicago ruckman Patrick Ryder taking the honours by, again, the single vote ahead of Hurley (with Dylan Roberton not too far behind). Both of the top two were coming back after a year off, both have been right up near the top of their positions - Ryder averaged 101 from his 17 games for the Sharks to be the second-highest averaging ruckman, while Hurley averaged 102 from 19 games to be the third-highest averaging defender. Roberton was rewarded for a much improved 2017 by finishing third, while a three-way tie for fourth saw defender Lloyd, midfielder Ebert, and forward Papley share top-five honours, while Wisconsin's Jack Macrae was right behind them on 14 votes, and every player received at least 4 votes!



Coach of the Year

Winner: nas (31 votes)
Runner-up: elephants (25 votes)
Third: Sydneyrox (21 votes)
Fourth: powersuperkents and Jukes (20 votes)
Sixth: kilbluff1985 and pkbaldy (15 votes)

Again, nas goes back-to-back in the Coach of the Year medal race to replicate Dangerfield - well deserved to, leading the Panthers to a long-awaited (well, four seasons) minor premiership and premiership in a very good season which saw them score the most points in the H&A season on the back of a dynamite midfield - let's just appreciate how good a midfield of Martin, Kelly, Bontempelli, Kennedy, Ward, Shiel, Menegola and S. Selwood is. Retiring Boston coach elephants took out second-place, while Sydneyrox (he got my five votes!) took our third for a solid season for Las Vegas, who will be right up there next season, and guiding Nevada to the reserves premiership. Importantly, every coach got at least four votes!

[fanTCfool]

Gonna go out on a limb and say Quito got 0 votes in all three categories, maybe next year  ;)

[Jukes]

Gonna go out on a limb and say Quito got 0 votes in all three categories, maybe next year  ;)

If you actually read what I said you'd know that's wrong ;)

MVP - Seb Ross - 1 vote (more than my guy got at least)
CA - Ryan Burton - 9 votes
COTY - 9 votes

[fanTCfool]

Gonna go out on a limb and say Quito got 0 votes in all three categories, maybe next year  ;)

If you actually read what I said you'd know that's wrong ;)

MVP - Seb Ross - 1 vote (more than my guy got at least)
CA - Ryan Burton - 9 votes
COTY - 9 votes

Must've been edited in late or something, stitch up  ;)

[Nige]

Probably more likely that Ottawa and myself got zero votes.  :P

[Jukes]

Probably more likely that Ottawa and myself got zero votes.  :P

Again, not true at all!

MVP - Adam Treloar - 4 votes
CA - Ben McEvoy - 10 votes
COTY - 4 votes

The spread and diversity in the voting was pretty pleasing (admittedly 5 out of 12 options get a spot on everybody's ballot)

[SydneyRox]

Well done Nas!!

[elephants]

Well done to all award winners!

"Retiring Boston coach elephants took out second-place"

Not sure how when I went AWOL for a month, but cheers lads ;D

[Pkbaldy]

Well done to all award winners!

"Retiring Boston coach elephants took out second-place"

Not sure how when I went AWOL for a month, but cheers lads ;D

And you're also just a shower bloke.... Crazy ;)

[elephants]

Well done to all award winners!

"Retiring Boston coach elephants took out second-place"

Not sure how when I went AWOL for a month, but cheers lads ;D

And you're also just a shower bloke.... Crazy ;)

Hahaha well yeah, thats the main point :P

[Jukes]

Also, here is the first official* Team of the Year! It's an XVIII + EMG + Ressies, but with a few conditions:
1. Reserves are players who played most of the season in the ressies, not just the 23rd to 33rd best players in the league.
2. Minimum of two players from each club, with a minimum of one in the best XVIII.
3. I tried to populate it with a fair few team B&Fs and CAs. All B&Fs are in there somewhere at least, apart from Neale who I nommed (probably should've gone with Laird)
4. No lines could have multiple players from the same club.

D: M. Hurley (Anaheim), R. Laird (Boston), S. Docherty (Carolina), T. Adams (Houston)
M: P. Dangerfield (c) (Anaheim), D. Martin (vc) (Carolina), C. Oliver (Chicago), M. Murphy (Colorado), T. Mitchell (Las Vegas), M. Crouch (New Brooklyn)
R: M. Kreuzer (Houston)
F: L. Franklin (Las Vegas), S. Higgins (Quito), T. Papley (San Francisco), J. Macrae (Wisconsin)
U: Z. Merrett (Anaheim), A. Treloar (Ottawa), S. Ross (Quito)

Emg: J. Howe (Boston) (D), D. Zorko (sub) (Wisconsin) (M), S. Martin (San Francisco) (R), P. Ryder (Chicago) (F)

Reserves: M. Gleeson (Suffolk), A. Otten (North Carolina), N. Jetta (Rockford), M. Hartley (Colorado), D. Howe (Rio Grande Valley), C. Petracca (c) (Nevada), B. Acres (vc) (Harlem), R. Schoenmakers (Montreal), T. Stewart (Stanford), L. Duggan (Milwaukee)


Just a bit of fun, don't take it too seriously pls, probably made a mistake or two too.