It’s the shiny and new thing I think, as there is more focus on them and when they do something halfway decent we get overexcited.
I remember Caballo putting in a halfway decent cross at Leichhardt and I was like “yep we have signed an absolute gun”.
Players who can put in a half decent cross have no business playing in our league and should be hounded out immediately for cheating
I was curious about this so I calculated the share of votes allocated to debutants divided by the share of minutes played by debutants. The idea being that if that ratio was greater than 1, then debutants are getting a higher share of votes than non-debutants, relative to the minutes they played.
For example, on Kamsoba’s starting debut last season (vs WSW) he played 84 minutes (8.9% of the total minutes played by starters) and was second in MOTM after picking up 79 votes (23% of the total votes allocated to starters), giving a ratio of 2.59 (23 / 8.9).
Since we started MOTM voting, there have been 64 matches in which at least one player has made their starting debut. The votes-vs-minutes ratio was > 1 in only 29 of those matches, so just over half the time, debutants actually got fewer votes than non-debutants, relative to minutes played.
There is a fair skew though: across those 64 matches, the average ratio was 1.47, and some of the highest-rated performances have been debuts. Yairo Yau’s starting debut in the 2-7 loss to CCM is still the second-largest MOTM win we’ve ever had, as he picked up an average of 4.43 / 6 votes at a votes-vs-minutes ratio of 7.47 (76% of the votes, 10% of the minutes). Reza had a ratio of 6.60 on his debut in Brisbane, getting 51% of the votes in just 7.8% of the minutes. Segecic and Caballo sit 15th on the highest-ratio list, with 2.17 (40% of the votes, 18% of the minutes, combined). There have been three matches where our starting debutants got no votes: Joel Chianese, Daniel Petkovski and George Blackwood.
Result for the Cup Round of 16 win over Bentleigh (apologies for the slowness):
We had the exact same number of voters as the first match of the season (44), and 92% of their votes (243 / 264) went to just 5 different players! There was just one vote separating third from fourth, but the MOTM was way out in front — Adrian Segecic picking up his second of the season to go with his maiden goal.
Thanks to all voters; next match is obviously the quarter final against Oakleigh this coming Wednesday.
Keep picking him Steve.
I can’t seem to get to the front page to set up voting for Oakleigh
You can PM your votes to me in the meantime, if you like. Keep profanity to a minimum please 
Voting for the loss vs Oakleigh open now:
Getting the follow issue:
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Same, so desperate to keep my streak alive
We’re working on it. Will let everyone know when its back
Site still seems to be down, so if you haven’t voted yet but would like to, please PM your votes to me and I’ll make sure they get counted.
I’ll extend the voting deadline once it’s back up if you’d prefer to go through that.
Maybe the site has become sentient and decided that the match does not deserve to be voted on?
Thanks Rowdy, appreciate your efforts in running this despite the tech issues.
Sorry dude, Chile is working on rebuilding the front -end, there were tech issues that made it impossible to simply restore the old one, and work is interfering with the efforts.
All good, I appreciate the effort 
Well, all results from last year should be null and void.
I tried to vote for the Ballboys for some matches last year, but sadly were not an option. Nor was “the intoxicated English bloke yelling profanities from the hill”
Well I can log in for the first time in a while however the Oakleigh one is showing 404 for me. 
Skynet needs to go back further than that to make a real difference.
Hm yeah, it seems like the post and poll for Oakleigh disappeared.
I’ll recreate it if @jubal1 says it’s ok to do so; I don’t want to mess up any restoration work they’re doing…
It’s fine to do so, we have one issue to resolve, and that’s with paypal
Same here…