2020--21 SFCU Player of the Season: RESULTS

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Here it is… the results of the 2020–21 SFCU Player of the Season voting!

Thanks first of all to Jubal and James for making this possible. Thanks as well to everyone who voted throughout the year. We had a big bump in votes compared to last season (+15.5 per match), and 97 unique voters. Special mention to the regulars: eight people voted in all 28 competitive matches — @garuna (for the third season in a row!), @scottohara (second in a row), @Shoushi (second in a row), @Acclaim, @Clovis, @littlejib, @testament and @Trash.

And the result: Miloš Ninković is the 2020–21 SFCU Player of the Season

Ninko was voted MOTM in 9 of his 27 appearances, and picked up 8 other top-3 finishes for a total of 37 points. It is his third SFCU Player of the Season title, and continues his incredible streak of finishing in the top 3 in every one of his seasons with the club.

He finished miles ahead of the chasing pack, which was tightly contested: just 3 points separated second (Kosta Barbarouses :scream:; 15 points) from sixth (last year’s winner, Luke Brattan; 12 points). In between were Bobô (3rd; 13 points), Anthony Cáceres (4th; 12.5 points) and Alex Wilkinson (5th; 12.5 points).

Here are the top 3 from every match:

Rd Vs Result Voters MOTM Votes 2nd 3rd
W2 Well Phx W 2-1 57 Calem Nieuwenhof 2.11 Luke Brattan Joel King & Miloš Ninkovic
W4 WS Wanderers D 1-1 50 Miloš Ninkovic 1.88 Rhyan Grant Ben Warland
W5 CC Mariners L 0-2 39 Anthony Cáceres 1.90 Rhyan Grant Miloš Ninkovic
W6 Macarthur W 3-0 49 Miloš Ninkovic 2.20 Patrick Wood Calem Nieuwenhof
W7 Well Phx W 2-1 51 Kosta Barbarouses 2.53 Alexander Baumjohann Calem Nieuwenhof
W9 Bris Roar D 0-0 49 Miloš Ninkovic 2.00 Calem Nieuwenhof Alex Wilkinson
W9 Melb City L 2-3 42 Miloš Ninkovic 2.81 Patrick Wood Calem Nieuwenhof
W10 Macarthur L 0-1 45 Miloš Ninkovic 2.58 Anthony Cáceres Calem Nieuwenhof
W11 Bris Roar D 1-1 42 Ryan McGowan 1.86 Bobô Miloš Ninkovic & Alex Wilkinson
W11 Wstn Utd W 2-0 46 Rhyan Grant 1.72 Anthony Cáceres Kosta Barbarouses
W12 Newc Jets W 2-1 38 Alex Wilkinson 2.03 Miloš Ninkovic Patrick Wood
W13 Pth Glory D 1-1 38 Bobô 1.47 Alex Wilkinson Miloš Ninkovic
W14 Adel Utd L 0-1 33 Ryan McGowan 2.88 Alex Wilkinson Andrew Redmayne
W15 Melb Victory W 3-0 38 Kosta Barbarouses 1.84 Anthony Cáceres & Ryan McGowan ---
W15 Pth Glory W 1-0 34 Kosta Barbarouses 1.41 Alexander Baumjohann & Joel King ---
W16 Melb City D 1-1 29 Luke Brattan 2.07 Andrew Redmayne Kosta Barbarouses
W17 Adel Utd D 2-2 30 Bobô 1.70 Alexander Baumjohann Miloš Ninkovic
W18 CC Mariners D 2-2 28 Miloš Ninkovic 2.14 Luke Brattan Bobô
W18 Melb Victory W 1-0 30 Bobô 1.13 Ryan McGowan Alex Wilkinson
W19 WS Wanderers L 2-3 27 Anthony Cáceres 2.59 Miloš Ninkovic Alex Wilkinson
W20 Newc Jets D 1-1 21 Miloš Ninkovic 2.57 Trent Buhagiar Anthony Cáceres
W21 Wstn Utd W 1-0 25 Miloš Ninkovic 1.32 Trent Buhagiar Luke Brattan
W21 Melb Victory W 2-0 32 Miloš Ninkovic 1.03 Ben Warland Kosta Barbarouses
W22 WS Wanderers W 1-0 38 Joel King 1.79 Miloš Ninkovic Bobô
W23 Adel Utd W 4-1 31 Adam Le Fondre 1.77 Luke Brattan Ryan McGowan
W24 Bris Roar W 2-0 32 Tom Heward-Belle 1.88 Paulo Retre Alex Wilkinson
SF Adel Utd W 2-1 37 Joel King 1.78 Luke Brattan Kosta Barbarouses
GF Melb City L 1-3 36 Tom Heward-Belle 2.61 Kosta Barbarouses Alex Wilkinson

And the final standings. Players are ranked according to the number of Player of the Season points, then the number of MOTMs, 2nd place finishes, 3rd place finishes and the total number of votes in the case of ties.

Rank Player MOTMs 2nd 3rd Votes Points
1 Miloš Ninkovic 9 3 5 28.06 37.0
2 Kosta Barbarouses 3 1 4 14.43 15.0
3 Bobô 3 1 2 9.64 13.0
4 Anthony Cáceres 2 3 1 15.12 12.5
5 Alex Wilkinson 1 2 6 13.57 12.5
6 Luke Brattan 1 4 1 13.62 12.0
7 Ryan McGowan 2 2 1 12.62 10.5
8 Calem Nieuwenhof 1 1 4 5.92 9.0
9 Joel King 2 1 1 11.02 8.0
10 Rhyan Grant 1 2 0 7.83 7.0
11 Tom Heward-Belle 2 0 0 4.73 6.0
12 Alexander Baumjohann 0 3 0 7.34 5.5
13 Patrick Wood 0 2 1 4.51 5.0
14 Trent Buhagiar 0 2 0 2.62 4.0
15 Adam Le Fondre 1 0 0 3.31 3.0
16 Andrew Redmayne 0 1 1 5.04 3.0
17 Ben Warland 0 1 1 2.98 3.0
18 Paulo Retre 0 1 0 2.86 2.0
19 Harry Van Der Saag 0 0 0 1.06 0.0
20 Luke Ivanovic 0 0 0 0.82 0.0
21 Jordi Swibel 0 0 0 0.39 0.0
22 Chris Zuvela 0 0 0 0.04 0.0
23 Patrick Flottmann 0 0 0 0.00 0.0
=23 Callum Talbot 0 0 0 0.00 0.0
=23 Michael Zullo 0 0 0 0.00 0.0

You can find the full results for every match and the full standings here, and I also wrote a blog post that contains the results and a few extra graphs and stats.

All winners:

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The winner of the prize draw is @Lucerne1901 — congrats! I will get in touch tomorrow to arrange your prize.

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Ninkovic wins player of the season and in other news the sky is blue.

Personally was shocking this season (though thought I’d voted a few times)

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A Milos win every two years I see.

We really need to look into a milo3 for after Ninko retires…

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Milos is the king. Kosta in second, the silent majority have spoken once again!

Thanks for running this comp again. Great stuff

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Kosta 2nd and Brattan 6th is truly baffling.

Also shows how lacklustre we were all year when ninkovic probably had his “worst” season (with maybe the first?) yet still won in a canter.

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That’s one hell of an eastern european presence in the past winners list.

Thanks for running the comp this year, always fun submitting the votes after each match.

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As much as I hate writing this, 10th spot for Rhyan sounds about right. Just didn’t seem to have the same impact this year.

Still good enough for NT selection, but hoping we see more beast mode next season.

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If he doesn’t pick it up, Atkinson is going to be nipping at his heels

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Lot of recency bias there. For me it was Milos’s second best season after 2016-17. He pretty much dragged us through the first half of the season single handedly when everyone one else was pretty average, and won it then.

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Thanks Rowdy.

Also shocked by Kosta’s result. He probably did just enough to pick up a few points in most games and then when he had a good game he really cleaned up. I presume that’s why he only had one second place finish. Meanwhile Brattan’s quiet competence led to only one win.

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Cheers for organising this. Can’t argue with Milos winning, and good to see Kosta get 2nd - he’s been very good this season too.