2015 WXV Awards and 2015 Rules Discussion

[ossie85]

I'm not part of Worlds but I got linked to read this. I think those rule changes are cool.

Future trading of draft picks is not a good idea though, unlike the AFL coaches here change hands so often I think that is one element that should be kept the same as it is. It really does not add anything except confusion.

Is a good point PB, will point out though this has been an incredibly stable year under Purps - no coaches have resigned, and everybody has submitted a team every week on time (except for a couple of partial lock out issues)

[PowerBug]

I'm not part of Worlds but I got linked to read this. I think those rule changes are cool.

Future trading of draft picks is not a good idea though, unlike the AFL coaches here change hands so often I think that is one element that should be kept the same as it is. It really does not add anything except confusion.

Is a good point PB, will point out though this has been an incredibly stable year under Purps - no coaches have resigned, and everybody has submitted a team every week on time (except for a couple of partial lock out issues)

Wow that is a very good effort then, well done :) I also know that in AXV which is the only XVs I'm currently involved with seems to be vastly against the future draft picks too. The other stuff though looks really really awesome, would be time consuming as a manager, but still very very good.

[Memphistopheles]

The Cape Town coaches award nominee is so easy I don't even need to consult My Chumps on this one.

I'm sure he'll agree that Mark Blicavs thoroughly deserves the nomination from the Cobras.

After averaged a shade under 70 last year in 21 games Blicavs has played all but one game this season for an astounding average of 106.18 - 37 points per game better than in 2014.

His lowest score for the year is 71 (better than his average last year) and he's passed the ton in more than 50% of his games (9/17 games). These tons have included several monster scores including a 153, 134 and 132.

[Purple 77]

There is no competition at all for my nomination. This lad averaged a mere 50.8 from 18 games last year, and when I traded out backstabber Clark for X.Ellis, I didn't expect the sweetener on top of Ellis to be the best player in the trade! Yes he may have finished the H&A season with an average of 79.44 (28.64 point improvement) after running out of puff somewhat, he has played EVERY game for me in the forward line or bench, and his wicked crazy consistency cannot be undervalued.

I speak of no other, than Marco "PapaGun" Paparone!

[Holz]

There is no competition at all for my nomination. This lad averaged a mere 50.8 from 18 games last year, and when I traded out backstabber Clark for X.Ellis, I didn't expect the sweetener on top of Ellis to be the best player in the trade! Yes he may have finished the H&A season with an average of 79.44 (28.64 point improvement) after running out of puff somewhat, he has played EVERY game for me in the forward line or bench, and his wicked crazy consistency cannot be underestimated.

I speak of no other, than Marco "PapaGun" Paparone!

how Fyfe didnt win Ill never understand.

[Purple 77]

There is no competition at all for my nomination. This lad averaged a mere 50.8 from 18 games last year, and when I traded out backstabber Clark for X.Ellis, I didn't expect the sweetener on top of Ellis to be the best player in the trade! Yes he may have finished the H&A season with an average of 79.44 (28.64 point improvement) after running out of puff somewhat, he has played EVERY game for me in the forward line or bench, and his wicked crazy consistency cannot be underestimated.

I speak of no other, than Marco "PapaGun" Paparone!

how Fyfe didnt win Ill never understand.

Cost me a couple of games towards the end of the year... and tbh, his dominance was expected.

I most certainly didn't expect Paparone to play all 17 matches for me this year.

[Holz]

Jelly wasn't able to make it 3 Dublin medals in a row.

The man who took it out, just wasn't the best player at Dublin, he was the best player in the compl and he did it all not as a midfielder. From a very very good 107 last year he pumped that up to a 131 average, from every single game played.

He had an amazing 15/18 100+ scores.

but what is more scary 6/18 or 33% of his games at 150 or more including the 221 point masterclass.

I give you the best player in the World

[RaisyDaisy]

I probably should run this by AK first, but I doubt he would argue when I say that we nominate Heath "Heater" Shaw

This has been Heater's best season ever in terms of SC and picking him up during the trade period last season from Moscow has been a massive gain for New York

He has played every game this season so far and is the 7th highest overall scoring player, highest averaging defender and 12th highest averaging player in the entire comp!

Absolutely massive year from Heater, and a very worthy award winner

[ossie85]

Official Coach of the Year Nominations

AaronKirk/Raisy Daisy (New York)
2015 Finish: 10 wins, 2367 points
2014 Finish: 5 wins, 2157 points
Difference: 5 wins, 210 points

New York with new coaches and heavy trading were always thought to be one of the big improvers this year, but they suffered a lot of injuries, and STILL posted impressive results, on its way to New York's best season and first finals appearance.

Boomz (Tokyo)
2015 Finish: 8 wins, 2278 points
2014 Finish: 6 wins, 2287 points
Difference: 2 wins, -9 points

A team that for a while looked like they might take a surprising finals appearance, but nonetheless they are competitive team, and Boomz will just be striving for some consistency.

Hellopplz (PNL)
2015 Finish: 13 wins, 2532 points
2014 Finish: 12 wins, 2422 points
Difference: 1 win, 110 points

Along with assistant coach DazBurg, HP has crafted one of the few legitimate contenders for this year's flag. Always competitive, but not that lucky, can the Reindeers win there first ever final, prelim, Grand Final?

Holz (Dublin)
2015 Finish: 16 wins, 2773 points
2014 Finish: 14 wins, 2641 points
Difference: 2 wins, 132 points

Purely outstanding effort, winning the minor premiership by 3 wins and a bucket load of percentage. Holz has dramatically improved his PREMIERSHIP winning team. Well done, and an amazing effort.

Jayman (Pacific)
2015 Finish: 11 wins, 2361 points
2014 Finish: 3 wins, 2040 points
Difference: 8 wins, 321 points

Controversial finish this time last year, Pacific have drafted and traded VERY well and kept the faith in others. Jayman has built his team to FIFTH from LAST the year before! Even the great Dublin only managed to go from 18th to 9th in one year. Well done Jayman on Pacific's first finals appearance.

JBs-Hawks/kilbluff1985 (Seoul)
2015 Finish: 8 wins, 2236 points
2014 Finish: 7 wins, 2293 points
Difference: 1 win, -57 points

I don't know how they do it, but Seoul found a way to keep winning this year, often out of nowhere, and even took out the Asian cup. Well done to JB and KB!

meow meow (Christchurch)
2015 Finish: 13 wins, 2430 points
2014 Finish: NA

A  terrific effort from one of the new teams on the block, a some of the Sao Paulo DNA in this team, but a heck of lot of meow meow razzle dazzle, coaching a team that keeps on surprising.

Purple 77 (Berlin)
2015 Finish: 10 wins, 2484 points
2014 Finish: 8 wins, 2306 points
Difference: 2 wins, 178 points

The 4th highest scoring team this year, Purple 77 recovered from last year's disappointing result to be a team that can beat any team on its day, and will be a team that no other team will like to face in the finals.

Toga/Master Q (Beijing)
2015 Finish: 7 wins, 2318 points
2014 Finish: 3 wins, 2038 points
Difference: 4 wins, 280 points

Toga (and silent partner Master Q? Haven't heard from Q in a long time!) has built a very competitive team that nobody takes lightly anymore, 7 wins is really a tremendous effort, and they are in finals calculations next year if they continue to do what they are doing.

[ossie85]

Jelly wasn't able to make it 3 Dublin medals in a row.

The man who took it out, just wasn't the best player at Dublin, he was the best player in the compl and he did it all not as a midfielder. From a very very good 107 last year he pumped that up to a 131 average, from every single game played.

He had an amazing 15/18 100+ scores.

but what is more scary 6/18 or 33% of his games at 150 or more including the 221 point masterclass.

I give you the best player in the World

Goldstein a worthy nomination, but just pointing out (you might know anyway) that this is the Coaches Award, not the best and fairest, so it isn't your best player necessary, just a guy who deserves special mention. I would've thought Tom McDonald (particularly at the beginning of the year) would've been yours. But no criteria!

[Nige]

Still feeling a little deprived of a coach of the year nomination.  :( :P

[meow meow]

Picken was stiff to miss out but really there can be only one man who gets the coaches award from Christchurch this year. We're known for our consistency and while Sammy Mitchell is consistency personified it is much more difficult to find a defender who puts up a good score week in, week out. Coming off a 49.7 average last year you need only look at these numbers to realize how good the man has been this year.

96, 70, 123, 73, 65, 82, 69, 77, 84, 124, 95, 115, 123, 89, 144, 91, 97

No shockers amongst them, but plenty of awesome.

Just turned 24 years old, 95.1 averaging defender who never ever misses a target by foot DYLAN ROBERTON

[RaisyDaisy]

A very worthy nominee Meow - he's been super this year

In regards to rule changes, we kind of touched on this earlier in another thread, but I would personally like to see a change made to Ruck OOP

The way I see it, we have two options. We can either reduce the OOP penalty or bring in something new

When I say something new, we already have the option to flood or attack, so we should have another option which allows us to go without a ruck. We can flood and attack on lines that have heaps of players, yet the one line that most of us have just 1, maybe 2 rucks who actually play we cant do anything for except cop OOP, and when you're faced with OOP, let alone OOP and HGA against, it's too hard to win for most of us

[Nige]

So the love affair with man is like no other.

Cairo's pick is Luke Breust!



Not much needs to be said here. A solid 85 avg with a few tons here and there. Luke Breust was one of our better players.

This year, through the adversity and the terribleness, Luke shone through.

It was the best of time, it was the Breust of times ~ The Karen faithful.

Take a well earned golfing trip Luke, you've earned it bud!

[ossie85]

A very worthy nominee Meow - he's been super this year

In regards to rule changes, we kind of touched on this earlier in another thread, but I would personally like to see a change made to Ruck OOP

The way I see it, we have two options. We can either reduce the OOP penalty or bring in something new

When I say something new, we already have the option to flood or attack, so we should have another option which allows us to go without a ruck. We can flood and attack on lines that have heaps of players, yet the one line that most of us have just 1, maybe 2 rucks who actually play we cant do anything for except cop OOP, and when you're faced with OOP, let alone OOP and HGA against, it's too hard to win for most of us

I think HGA is a different argument - but a bunch of people had issues with OOP - I mean Nige had to play three OOP MIDFIELDERS this round just gone. That's just crazy.

Purple - are you able to say how many games ruckmen (not just WXV games, AFL games) played this year in total across the 17 WXV rounds? If it is say under 459 (1.5 games per team per round) I think we're in trouble, otherwise I'm kind of on the side of still having it. It isn't like it isn't realistic - just look at Essendon :(