Milchcow wrote:
I don't think its rigged, its just a by-product of how they do their voting. Better to have a few flashy performances rather than play consistently well week in/week-out.
Ponga isn't the first player to win on the back of 6 weeks of hot form, and won't be the last.
Yeh all of this, acting like it’s rigged when it’s always been this way is silly, for Dally M purposes, it’s always been better to be the star player of an overperforming team than the best player of a good team, if anything, ‘fixing’ the voting system by putting 2 sets of votes in for each game has made the main problem of the award even worse, votes are even more diluted amongst the players in good sides while the players who get max points pretty much every time their team wins get an even bigger point share.