Peter Blucher | Brownlow Medal - Footy Nerd Central (16.09.26)
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What is the Brownlow Medal preview and why is it a ‘one‑horse race’ this year?
Whitely on SEN. We finish every Wednesday with nerdy stats. This is an empire that grows. Last week in the AFL record, he was across two pages and I I've seen the material this week. He might be a four page spread. Peter Bluechipluch, welcome back.
Just show, mate. Nerds rule, don't they? Nerds rule the world.
Brownlow Metal preview here. She's gonna be a one horse race, so we've got to find our points of interest. Set up the Nick Dakos quests for us on Monday night.
Well, it's not uh it's it's I guess the two points of real interest to be whether or not he can equal Patrick Cripp's all time record votes, which is forty five, uh set in twenty twenty four. Um that'll that's a challenge. I only missed one game, so twenty two games, he's gotta do better than two votes a game to do that. One he'll certainly knock off, I think, is is the m the biggest winning margin, which is ten votes to the credit of Roy Wright in nineteen fifty four when he polled twenty nine to win by ten. And Lucky Neal in the covert season of twenty twenty, which w is something that's perhaps gone under the radar a little bit, he polled thirty one votes in seventeen games and one by and one by ten.
So that's a fair effort. But What what Nick Dracos has put together in four years is is beyond belief to be o be o to be really true.
And this revolves around the hundred votes club. Well
he's he's in four years he's gone eleven, twenty eight, thirty, eight, thirty two, um, finished runner up twice. There are two there are sorry, there are a hundred and nineteen players in history who have polled over a hundred votes to the end of last year. Uh he averages Uh did you did it did you where did I put this? Averages one point two four votes per game. Only one other player in history averages better than one vote per game. That's Hayden Bunton in the thirty went at one point zero four. So I mean it it's it's ridiculous for a bloke that's only played four years.
How could Nick Dicos break the all‑time voting records in his fourth season?
Um he's polled in fifty four point six. percent of his games, next best is Crips at thirty nine point nine. His thirty eight votes in twenty twenty four is the most ever by a runner up. ahead of Bonton Pelly thirty three in twenty three and Dacos' thirty two last year. He'll and and he's played four years, but he'll go into the vote count this weekend or next Monday. Um with already sixth on the all time Collingwood vote list. Um behind five guys who between them played sixteen hundred and three games and polled eight hundred and thirty six votes. That's Pendlebury, Swan, Buckley, Thompson and Sidebottom. Um he'll come out at least fifth on the Collingwood list, possibly fourth, which which w I mean it it really beyond it beggars belief, doesn't it?
Um and one last big one. If he polls thirty votes this year, which seems automatic, it'll be the first play in history to hit this one unthinkable mark uh in a season three times. Chris Judd locking Neil Nat Fife. And Patrick Danger Dangerfield had done so twice. Uh and he'll jump uh he'll jump thirty votes would put him fifth on the all time list with at least ten years to go. So i i it's not a case of if he gets to the top of the all time voting list, it's a case of when.
Oh, that so that's amazing. He'll he'll get to at least equal fiftieth and he's gonna get higher than that. So he'll be alongside Ian Stewart briefly and then he'll blow past him. Yeah. I it's it's ridiculous. Amazing. All right. So what else are we on alert for? Most votes all time? Well,
this is one that's g it's gonna be quite significant, but it's gonna be s you know, I guess it might give us something else to w watch as uh Nick racks 'em up. But uh Patrick Dangerfield is uh at the moment second on the all time votes list to Gary Ablett. He has two fifty nine, Ablett two sixty two. So he needs three to equal him.
Which players are on track to join the 100‑vote club after this season?
Now he hasn't had too many massive, massive big games, but He did poll six, five and five votes with the coaches in rounds thirteen, seventeen and twenty four. So you could f certainly find one, two or three votes in there somewhere. So so that's gonna be a chance and and I guess that really does um put Dangerfield in very, very elite company.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the Brownlow Medal preview and why is it a ‘one‑horse race’ this year?
0:00–1:53
2
How could Nick Dicos break the all‑time voting records in his fourth season?
1:53–3:39
3
Which players are on track to join the 100‑vote club after this season?
3:39–5:53
4
What does the ‘votes per game’ metric reveal about historic Brownlow greats?
5:53–7:16
5
How do coaches’ votes translate into a Brownlow‑style leaderboard?
7:16–8:22
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