This is the 8th season of the SFCU Player of the Season award, voted by SFCU members.
How it works:
After each match, a poll will go up on the front page of SFCU to vote for your players of the match. You must be an SFCU user to vote.
You have 6 points to allocate to players who appeared for Sydney in the match, in any way you see fit. You can give all 6 to a single player, 1 point each to six different players, whatever.
Your votes only count if you allocate all 6 points. A little pop-up should appear to indicate that your votes have been submitted successfully.
Voting will close about a week after the match.
The top 3 players in each match will receive 3-2-1 points respectively for the Player of the Season tally. Tied players will share the available points equally.
After each round, Player of the Match — the player gaining the most votes for that game — will be posted in this thread. 2nd and 3rd place will be kept secret so that the full result isn’t known until the end of the season.
At the end of the season, SFCU’s Player of the Season will be crowned, and the full votes from every match will be made available publicly.
Yep, Andrew Redmayne becomes the first player to win two MOTMs this season, and in emphatic style: he picked up votes from 31 of the 33 voters. They are actually also the first two MOTMs of his Sydney FC career, having only won three 2nd places and one 3rd-place in his first 40 appearances.
(I’ll copy in the others from the archive once it’s up)
I can’t remember how things were under the older software, but could this be done using the poll system? It would probably get more people on board because it is easier.
As far as I can tell, there’s no way to do it well with the existing poll system (especially making sure people submit all 6 votes correctly).
The developers could write a new plug-in to do exactly what we need within the forum, but that’s not something that’ll happen in the short-term.
And honestly, the current system requires the user to click exactly one link before voting. If that’s so difficult that it’s keeping people away, there’s probably a bigger issue.
I don’t know if this is a genuine question or not, so I’ll answer it in a few ways.
Officially, no, you have 6 votes to give and they are all positive. You can’t get more than 6 votes by going negative on some players.
Technically, apparently, yes you can, as @mental mentioned in another thread.
So if you wanted to symbolically take points away from a player who had a particularly poor game, go nuts.
But it would just be for your personal catharsis, because practically I can’t actually see the negative votes, and I don’t think it lets you give more than 6 positive votes if you do give negative votes.
Having said that, I’d rather people (a) avoid doing this, or (b) tell me if you really felt the need to, because I don’t know if the current behaviour will stay as it is.
Ninkovic the only player to feature in the top 3 three seasons in a row and every season hes been at the club. Think hes one of the very few to feature in the top 3 multiple times. What a guy
Round 1 result: Goalscorer Adam Le Fondre won MOTM for the draw against Adelaide, his second in just 3 appearances. Votes were a lot more evenly spread this time, as he picked up an average of just 1.44 from each voter.
Nick Carle
Alessandro Del Piero
Vedran Janjetović
Miloš Dimitrijević
Filip Hološko
Adrian Mierzejewski