AFL: An historic night in Brownlow Medal history comes to a close as Carlton skipper Patrick Cripps claims his second gong in record-setting fashion.
One of the most absurd counts in Brownlow Medal history has seen the record for votes under the current system broken.. It’s not as if the award isn’t already a midfielders award - and that’s fair enough, they have the most impact - but we have reached new levels of utterly bonkers vote inflation.
No massive problem here. Harry McKay was very good with five goals, but Cripps had 28 disposals and nine clearances.He was the fourth-best player on the ground per the AFL Player Ratings and the second-best Blue, and they won, so this isn’t completely ridiculous. Though he did only have 20 disposals.Hard to go past Christian Petracca, who had 21 disposals and five goals, but Cripps was second-best on the ground at worst.
Studying Cripps’ votes like this almost makes it even crazier. There were one or two occasions where he was clearly fortunate to poll like he did, but for the most part, he was genuinely in contention for the 2s and 3s he continually polled. Then surprisingly came John Noble and Nick Daicos, who were each nowhere near the best players on the ground - Noble was 24th, according to the AFL Player Ratings, while Daicos was 16th.
Had 32 disposals, two goals and two goal assists against the Suns and was clearly best-on, at worst second.
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