WHU606 Hammer of the Year
If you'll all humour me, I want to try something for 2023/24. I learned about another clubs forum where they have a scientific way of selecting a player of the year, and I would love to steal their idea, but it requires (a tiny amount of) help from you all as forum members.
Basically, the way it works is every game, people just say who their man of the match was. I count up who people voted for, whoever gets the most votes is MOTM, second most is runner up, third most is third. Nice and simple. Then, at the end of the year, each player gets 3pts for a MOTM, 2pts for coming second, 1pt for coming third, and we have a nice little league table to tell us who our collective Hammer of the Year is. To make it manageable, I'll only count MOTM votes until the end of the day after a match (i.e. Saturday games have a cut off of midnight Monday morning).
You don't really need to do much, just please pop your MOTM into the match thread at the end of the game. A lot of people do this anyway, but I wanted to announce this so that, if you're someone who doesn't, you can chip in if you want to.
Basically, the way it works is every game, people just say who their man of the match was. I count up who people voted for, whoever gets the most votes is MOTM, second most is runner up, third most is third. Nice and simple. Then, at the end of the year, each player gets 3pts for a MOTM, 2pts for coming second, 1pt for coming third, and we have a nice little league table to tell us who our collective Hammer of the Year is. To make it manageable, I'll only count MOTM votes until the end of the day after a match (i.e. Saturday games have a cut off of midnight Monday morning).
You don't really need to do much, just please pop your MOTM into the match thread at the end of the game. A lot of people do this anyway, but I wanted to announce this so that, if you're someone who doesn't, you can chip in if you want to.
Comments
I think the manual approach is definitely the one that would ensure most people give their input.
Maybe Forest away.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10700630/west-ham-fans-vote-the-post-as-man-of-the-match-after-win-over-hull
In the instance of TSC this week with three players getting 7 votes, do I just give all of them 1st place, or do I use something like WhoScored or SofaScore’s official match rating to break the tie?
Is my take on it.
If you divide the points like that, it could end up (theoretically) that a player who often gets voted MOTM but tied with another player, could lose out on HOTY to a player who got voted MOTM fewer times but didn't tie with another player.
Which doesn't seem fair? Or what the thread is designed to determine?
If 5 players all tied, or 10 players in a truly average performance, should they all get the same points as the one guy who truly bosses it in the next game?
But at the heart of this is just opinion.
If you want to get a definitive ' who bossed it' you'd have to go beyond opinion, which is influenced by many things like who you are looking to do well, if you value a last ditch block more than an adventurous ( Benrahma aargh) mazy run, if an assist for a match winning goal is worth more than the 3rd goal in a thrashing of a poor opposition.
A good player in an average performance is just as much motm as a brilliant showing in a different game. You play the game you are in.
If it's an iffy-ish game, should we say, ok, nobody can be motm? Cos they don't deserve it?
Again, not imo.
But alderz set it up so perhaps had a clearer Idea of what it is intended to achieve. So can decide on criteria when MOTM isn't really MOTM..