How I Changed Award Voting

[FacePuncher 1,343]

Let me tell you a story about how I decided the fate of an award, and also lost me, @der meister, and @Cuffy 1 TPE

 

As you know, I am in the BOG. BOG does all the award voting now because the GMs suck. So we were sitting down and discussing who should win which award. Finally came the voting for the Dustin Funk Trophy for Most Improved. If i remember correctly, there were only 2 candidates posted, Maximoff and Maxwell. However, I had mentioned another person I thought who should deserve to win the award. That man was Jim Lahey. What was my reasoning for this?

 

Maximoff change: +31 goals, +34 assists, -27 hits, -3 shot blocks

Maxwell change: +18 goals, +40 points, +14 hits, -28 shot blocks

Lahey change: +6 goals, +24 assists, +137 hits, +83 shot blocks

 

basically my logic was that while Maximoff and Maxwell only made great offensive improvements, Lahey made good offensive improvements AND great defensive improvements. Unfortunately either everyone ignored this explanation or didnt think it deserved the time of day, so Lahey was not added to the ballot. This makes sense, I mean Cuffy is semi inactive, but also this is the same season a totally inactive is on the MVP ballot, so.

 

anyways, so because of that, When I went to vote, there was no Lahey and write in option. So, i did some calculating and went with who I believed deserved it the most after that: Pietro Maximoff. When the votes were all tallied up, what were the results?

 

Most Improved - Dustin Funk Trophy: Pietro Maximoff (RIG)
Maximoff (RIG) - 6, Maxwell (NYA) - 5

Maximoff won by one vote. MY one vote. So, if Lahey had been on the ballot right now, we wouldve seen a 5 vote tie for the Funk Trophy and I would be at 724 TPE instead of 723.

 

You're welcome @Green

[NotAVHLM-GM 1,858]

A shared Funk is still a Funk. So I wouldnt have mind