2016 ORFFA Rising Star Award

Stats for the 2016 ORFFA Rising Star award

Please find below the spreadsheet with the 2016 ORFFA Rising Star stats for your perusal to enable you to submit your votes for the 2016 Rising Star Award. The spreadsheet has five tables of 2016 ORFFA Rising Star stats, the first table provides information for all 49 Rising Star eligible players that played at least one game in the ORFFA during 2016. The next four tables rank the ORFFA Rising stars by average score, total points, games played and OOP games.


The automated process has made it easier than last year, with @walesy providing me a spreadsheet with a list of the ORFFA Rising Star scores for each round. The scores from Walesy's spreadsheet were then input into a spreadsheet which had a column for each of the 17 ORFFA rounds to get the totals and number of games played by each Rising Star eligible player. These totals were then cross-checked against the leaderboard in the ORFFA Tab which also displays the ladder at the end of each round. One thing that I haven’t included this year that was provided for the 2014 & 2015 Rising Star stats is the Time on Ground %. Whilst it would be beneficial to have the TOG% it would take a bit of time to add this info for the 292 games played by the 49 Rising Star players and I suspect it would have minimal impact on the votes submitted.


Some additional information I can provide this year is a breakdown of the 49 Rising Star players that played at least one ORFFA game in 2016. This group is broken down by draft class as follows:

30 players selected at the 2016 ORFFA PSD

15 players selected at the 2015 ORFFA PSD

2 players selected at the 2015 ORFFA MSD

1 player selected at the 2014 ORFFA MSD

1 player selected at the 2014 ORFFA PSD

Voting is the same as for the 2014 & 2015 seasons - each coach votes on who they think were the five best ORFFA Rising Stars of the season, awarding five votes to the best player, down to one vote for the fifth best player. Coaches are unable to vote for players from their ORFFA club. Please send me a message with your votes by 14 January 2017 and I will tally them up, announce the winner and post an article in this thread on the player that wins the 2016 ORFFA Rising Star award.

 

Thanks to the 12 coaches who have submitted their votes in the 2016 ORFFA Rising Star Award. For the six coaches who are yet to submit their votes there is still time. I am going to include some quotes from the ORFFA* 2017 Prospectus in the Les W medal article and the Rising Star article. Depending on when I get the 2017 ORFFA* Prospectus I should be able to post the Les W Medal article during the first weekend in February. The Rising Star article will be posted later in February.

At this stage 12 players have received votes in the 2016 ORFFA Rising Star Award. One player has got a sizable lead, however four players still have a mathematical chance of winning the award. The battle for the minor places is set to go down to the wire with only one vote separating second to fourth place. There are sizable margins from fourth to fifth place and from fifth to sixth place.

AFL*

 

Out of curiosity, who were the players chosen in the 2014 PSD/MSD? Good patience shown from the coach of those players...

 

From a quick scan of the list, I'll go with Acres and Dumont.

 

Spot on JC. The two players eligible for the 2016 Rising Star Award that played at least one ORFFA game in 2016 and were originally drafted in 2014 are Acres who was selected with pick 36 at the 2014 PSD and Dumont who was pick 22 at the 2014 MSD.