Michael Voss on his Norm Smith Medal voting - Trade Exchange (29.09.26)

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Why did Michael Voss's Norm Smith Medal voting draw attention?

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But the aftermath of the Norm Smith voting has generated a bit of interest out there. Plenty of people have had their say. You throw a blanket over five or six players. It was one of the more even performances from an indiv individual perspective. What was through your process? How did you get to your votes? Well what process would you use? If you were sort of assigned with that

Michael Voss 0:19

role,

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uh you what you

Michael Voss 0:20

you

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had a Anzac Day? I'd done the Anzac Day. I don't think I'd do it again, but I don't have the resume of a Michael Voss or a Chris Judd or an Andrew McLeod and they all voted on the award in the end. What'd you do? What'd you do? Because Well what

Michael Voss 0:34

I for from what I hear, I don't think that even saved them from what I from from what I hear. So uh you can be a two time Norm Smith medalist and and and still uh cop it. So um look, I think it's you know, for me I think it was really important coming into um to the voting um was to come up with a little bit of a a a process. Um

How did Voss use quarter-by-quarter voting to choose the Norm Smith Medal?

Michael Voss 0:52

And so my process, you know, at the end of every quarter is I just took a you know, a really simple five, four, three, two, one on every quarter. Um so that's that's what I did. So um I felt like that would give me, rather than sort of getting blinded by a result, um, you know, or the emotion of a result, I sort of felt like if I had some evidence based in behind me, then if I need to make any quick changes, I could sort of, you know, obviously make them on the fly 'cause it's let's face it. was my own voting system, so I do whatever I like. Um but then there was a couple other factors that clearly you come into the game and that is clear how you felt like the game went. You know, and if you sort of take a step back for a second

Michael Voss 1:31

I think you'd have to say that Fremantle across the whole day just looked better on the day and they were beaten by a four minute blitz. And so when you sort of look at the way the game was played and the players who were dominating key periods of the game, for me it was free manner, and for me it was the free man on midfield that was um putting themselves in the position. Um but it's also the reason why they lost. So in that in that four minute period of time. So when you sort of factor all that in, that's what you're sort of trying to weigh up a little bit on the fly.

How did Will Ashcroft's final four minutes affect Voss's Norm Smith votes?

Michael Voss 1:59

And um certainly when I handed my votes in at the end of the game, um the flyer was clearly Will Ashcroft. He wasn't in my voting at the very least. He hadn't voted in any other quarter. Um so I hadn't had him in the top five in any other quarter. Um and he sh he rocketed to five and probably could have got ten based on the last four minutes. But even with ten he still didn't get there. So for me it was just a matter of process of saying, yeah, deserved it. Unbelievable four minutes. Um put put the game on his boot as well as Logan Morris and also Lockie Neal for for that matter. I thought he was terrific in the last quarter. He he obviously voted really high too. Um but I still landed where I landed. Um and so my battle was was

How did Voss choose between Shai Bolton, Caleb Serong, and Hayden Young?

Michael Voss 2:41

One of those uh either uh a Bolton who ended up winning it, um, a Sarong or a Young had to come out of that three. So which one was it going to be? And obviously Young came out of that and I put Will Ashcroft in as the one. So that's how I and he came from nowhere. So he wasn't in wasn't even in my voting at all until the last until the last four minutes and nine seconds and then he came into consideration. So that's how I ran it. I don't know whether it's right or wrong. I don't think anyone has necessarily the perfect system. to it. Um, but I felt that was sort of the best way to be able to remove emotion, remove outcome and come to the right result.

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Result.

Why did Voss keep Will Ashcroft below the top Norm Smith votes?

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So you went three, Shea Bolton, two Caleb Sorong, and Will Ashcroft one. So you didn't have any temptation to move Will up any higher on the back of that.

Michael Voss 3:21

No, well he would have had to have then not got um five votes. He would have had to get twelve votes in one quarter. And you could argue uh you could definitely state a case about why uh he justified that, but it was also the reason why Fremantle were in terrific positions.