2021 ASC Awards Thread

[Big Mac]

Chicago

MVP: Clayton Oliver
Coaches Award: Tom McDonald
Rookie of the Year: James Jordon
Least Valuable Player: Mitch Wallis
OPOY: Tom McDonald
DPOY: Shannon Hurn
Recruit: Jack Bowes

[Nige]

Least Valuable Player

Congratulations to Luke Dahlhaus on 'winning' Least Valuable Player for 2021! An honour only the best players have won because to be the least valuable player of 672 listed players is really quite the achievement. Anyone who has watched Mr Dahlhaus regress as a player will not be surprised by this victory, the fact he's even getting games to be eligible for this award is nothing short of a miracle and he clearly has something Chris Scott doesn't want the world to know. Alas, the people have spoken, and we're celebrating the starchy qualities of this joke of a player!



Winner: Luke Dahlhaus - Boston (27 votes)
Second: Jason Johannisen - Brooklyn (26 votes)
Third: Michael Walters - Wisconsin (25 votes)
Fourth: Matt Rowell - Colorado (21 votes)
Fifth: Michael Hibberd - Anaheim (19 votes)



Recruit of the Year

Remember this?

Wisconsin trade: Liam Duggan, Darcy Gardiner, Josh Battle

NBH trade: Darcy Parish, Dylan Moore, Harry Morrison

Deadline Day madness, could be fleecing myself with Duggan but heh

Game technically hasnt started. confirmed

Well, this little bit of deadline day madness became a bit of a talking point in 2021, particularly from Round 6 onwards when a certain fella by the name of Darcy Parish went more bananas than Richmond fans at the 'G in Round 8, 2016. Parish enjoyed a breakout season, averaging over 30 ppg more than his previous best. Is Urbs a genius? Is Pk an idiot? It's hard to say. However, what can be said is that Darcy Parish is 2021's Recruit of the Year!



Winner: Darcy Parish - Wisconsin (37 votes)
Second: Tarryn Thomas - Colorado (33 votes)
Third: Jack Bowes - Chicago (21 votes)
Fourth: Errol Gulden - Las Vegas (16 votes)
Fifth: Rory Sloane - Boston (15 votes)

[ChuckStig]

Offensive Player of the Year

Winner: Tom Hawkins - Anaheim (42 votes)

Roll out the :porkchamp:, the great Tomahawk has won OPOTY! As the best pure forward in the competition, Tomahawk averaged over 5 marks & 2 goals as he walked away this prestigious accolade by a fair margin over his other nominees. Father time is not catching up with the almost 300 gamers. Congratulations to Tom!



Second: Tom McDonald - Chicago (28 votes)
Third: Taylor Walker - Boston (27 votes)
Fourth: Tarryn Thomas - Colorado (23 votes)
Fifth: Charlie Dixon - Ottawa (22 votes)

[fanTCfool]

Coach of the Year

Winner: ChuckStig - Las Vegas (36 votes)

Taking over the reigns from JukerCoach/SR, the doubters were out in force early,



However it soon became apparent that ChuckStig had things well and truly under control. Stig took the Sinners from their 2020 record of 7-4 to 13-5 this season, including having progressed to (at worst) the third week of finals. A highlight of Stig's debut year at the helm was the estute acquisition of Errol Gulden at Pick 22 in the National Draft. Outgoing coach SR may have shed a prideful tear in seeing their successor adding another Sydney Swan to the famously Swan-heavy Sinners list. Under Stig's guidance, a number of Sinners managed career best seasons, including Jarryd Lyons, Jack Scrimshaw, Jaeger O'Meara & Wil Powell. Stig and the Sinners will have the backing of the wider-ASC community as they look to upset Wisconsin for a spot in the Grand Final this weekend.

Congratulations, Stig!



Second: fanTCfool - Quito (31 votes)
Third: TomK - Boston (25 votes)
Fourth: urbaninfinnity - Wisconsin (24 votes)
Fifth: SilverLion - Houston (19 votes)

[SilverLion]

Defensive Player of the Year

Winner: Tom Stewart - San Francisco (43 votes)

A big ol' congratulations to Tommy Stewart on taking out DPOTY. Having improved with each year in the system, Stewart averaged a career-high 107 SC and has not only established himself as one of the competition's best defenders, but one of the best players period. His season would've no doubt pleased his coach Jukercoach Jukes, in what was otherwise a tough year, as shown by Stewart wearing the captain's armband in the absence of San Fran's entire starting midfield.



Second: Daniel Rich - Quito (36 votes)
Third: Jake Lloyd - Las Vegas (25 votes)
Fourth: Jordan Ridley - Anaheim (22 votes)
Fifth: Jack Crisp - Houston (15 votes)

[Koop]

Coaches Award

Winner: Sean Darcy - Wisconsin (47 votes)

2 tall bois, the GOAT, Bo Thompson & a racist walk into a bar...

It's safe to so say that Dean Sarcy has had an outstanding season, lifting his average by over 40 SuperCoach points to become the premier young ruckman in the competition. Thoroughly deserved for the future GOAT.




Second: Tom Hickey - Colorado (40 votes)
Third: Bailey Dale - Ottawa (23 votes)
Fourth: Taylor Walker - Boston (19 votes)
Fifth: Jacob Weitering - Houston (16 votes)

Rookie of the Year

Winner: Tom Green - San Francisco and Errol Gulden - Las Vegas (35 votes)

Wowee! Our top 3 decided by a singular vote, and my personal ROTY not being one of them! Both incredibly worthy winners, although Green did play more senior football for the Grizzlies, so Jukes may feel slightly aggrieved.





Third: James Jordon - Chicago (34 votes)
Fourth: Isaac Cumming - Boston (24 votes)
Fifth: Willem Drew - Colorado (16 votes)

[Jukes]

Coaches’ Coaches Award

Winner: Nige - Ottawa and fanTCfool - Quito (26 votes)

This is a difficult award to do a write-up about, seeing as I loathe both of these coaches and wanted to go back-to-back with two personas (just call me Mick Foley - where's Juke Love tho?). Alas, this was a well-deserved split decision for two of the longest serving and successful (heh) coaches in our competition - Nige being one of the two coaches who have lead Wisconsin to where they are today, along with PSK, while FTC took over a great list, lead them to a flag, and then capitulated it into a straight sets exit in 2021. But they're both pretty good dudes most of the time (don't vote out Ryno or kill him first round in amogus too much, you don't want to turn him into the Joker again) and well deserving of this, the most prestigious gong of all.

Third: ChuckStig - Las Vegas (23 votes)
Fourth: Jukes - San Francisco (20 votes)
Fifth: TomK - Boston and and Pkbaldy - Brookln (15 votes)

[Jukes]

Most Valuable Player - the Milo Medal

Winner: Sam Walsh - Colorado (40 votes)

The seventh highest averaging player taking it out?? Although I feel as though this genuinely represents this being an MVP award rather than a standard B&F, and kudos to our knowledgable coaches for voting that way (I gave Oliver 5 votes because I’m uncultured swine I guess). Walsh was huge as Colorado near-locked captain all season, contributing probably more to their scoring than any other player in comp history (source: dude trust me). Following the trend of players putting their teams on their back, Jack Steele and Clayton Oliver were worthy runners up, while fourth-placed Macrae certainly did the same, as he heroically carried a team with only five of the top ten averaging players - did somebody say Wisconsin redraft?



Second: Jack Steele - Brooklyn and Clayton Oliver - Chicago (35 votes)
Fourth: Jack Macrae - Wisconsin (25 votes)
Fifth: Marcus Bontempelli - Carolina (19 votes)