How is top GM award voted?

[Higgins 3,618]

The Toughest Award - Top GM

 

Helsinki

Regular Season: 54-12-6 (114 Points, 1st)

Playoffs: 8-2 (Championship)

Trade:
Jackson Miller (for HSK S47 2nd + HSK S48 2nd)
COL S47 3rd (for Thomas Duddy)

 

Calgary

Regular Season: 47-20-5 (99 Points, 4th)

Playoffs 9-5 (Loss in Finals)

Free Agency: Milos Denis
Trade:
Lloyd Light (for S47 CGY 1st + S47 DAV 2nd)
Brady Stropko (for S47 CGY 2nd)
Bernie Gow + RIG S48 1st + Griffon Simmons (for Hans Wingate)
DAV S47 2nd (for Rami Jakobssen)
Shadhu Rathod Jr. (for CGY S48 2nd)

 

Riga

Regular Season: 50-18-4 (104 Points, 3rd)

Playoffs: 0-4 (Loss in Quarter Finals)

Draft: Jordan Maverick (6th)
Free Agency: James Faraday
Trade:
Hans Wingate (for Bernie Gow, RIG S48 1st, Griffon Simmons)
S48 QUE 3rd (for Le'Sean Coutzen)

 

Davos

Regular Season: 44-26-2 (90 Points, 5th)

Playoffs: 5-4 (Loss in Semi Finals)

Free Agency: Bismarck Koenig

 

New York

Regular Season: 52-12-4 (108 Points, 2nd)

Playoffs: 1-4 (Loss in Semi Finals)

Draft: Olivia Diamond (8th)
Free Agency: Blake Campbell
Trade:
Joseph Roy III (for Chuck Goody)
Thaddeus Humbert + Gifford Shock (for Tyson Stokes, S48 NYA 1st, S48 NYA 2nd)

 

How do we choose the Top GM? Regular season success and winning the Continental Cup are a huge part of winning the top GM award. We can also look at drafting, free agency acquisitions and trades made during the season, but should the award be voted on for a season by season basis. This would mean that anything that happened before the previous off-season would be forgotten when choosing a top GM, which isn't fair because some teams are build entirely through the draft and will take 3-4 seasons to mature into a top team.

 

Should it be based on locker room activity, how many pages a season discussion thread generates, and maybe it's important to see how much TPE a team earns during the season. I'm far too lazy to calculate these numbers, but it isn't hard to see which teams have the most active players on their rosters. If a team full of inactive players wins the cup, but the 2nd place team is full of actives, I would tip the favor of the top GM award to the 2nd place team.

 

When it comes down to it someone who is voting (the GM's) they have an inside look into how the other GM's operate, that us regular folk don't get to see. If a team was built up 2 seasons ago, but made no moves during the current season because their roster was perfectly active and cap compliant, and they won a championship, why should that GM not win the top GM award. So overall it is best to look at how the team was built over a period longer than just one season, how active the team is, and how successful the season and playoffs were. It's a toughie.

 

This seasons final ballot, will (likely) come down to:

Helsinki (Shaw), Calgary (Gow) and Miller (NYA)

 

 

 

[Kesler 1,514]

I should be top GM, I missed the playoffs.

[boubabi 4,725]

Personally, I roll a dice to decide awards.

[Higgins 3,618]

3 minutes ago, boubabi said:

Personally, I roll a dice to decide awards.

 

must be a one sided dice because always voting stockholm players

[boubabi 4,725]

It's a I'm a pussy. dice. It makes me feel like a commish.