Re: DIII Posters' POTW for the week of 2/22-2/28
And just a side note: Due to a limited number of teams playing hereafter, this will be the final Player of the Week poll.
Next weekend, we will open the Player of the Year award nominations. To do what was discussed in a previous week, we will need a LOT of nominations, both East and West, so I'm going to go ahead and give an automatic nomination to all of the POTW winners, including this week's winner, and accept any nominations thereafter. Other than that, I haven't changed the procedure much since this:
*Following the conclusion of conference play, start a thread for nominations to the "Pool". <strike>All nominees who have won a POTW will be in with 1 nomination. All others need a second in support.</strike>
Then, all voters will submit:
*A ranking of the top 5 from that pool, in their opinion. This will be calculated as a Heisman-like vote for Player of the Year
*Their "All-Posters' National Team", and TWO 2nd teams (one consisting of East players, one of west players). Each player on a voter's national team will have 2 points, and each player on their regional teams will earn 2 points. The 3 Forwards, 2 defensemen, and 1 goalie with the most total points in this calculation will be named to the All-Posters' National Team, and highest total points at each position in each region among remaining players will be named to the Posters' Regional Teams.
The end result will be: 1 Player of the Year, 1 All-Posters' National Team, and 2 Posters' Regional Teams (instead of an all-posters' second team)
What I will say is, I agree with prez when he said:
I think we need to limit the amount of players from one team to keep it fair and not have ballot stuffing problem and one team's fan base...like Oswego gets three or four forwards in and they all get first team because Oswego has the most posters on the boards.
My suggestion would be each team should get a max of 2 or 3 at the most forwards eligible, 1 or 2 dman, and 1 goalie.
All-conference teams are done the same way where coaches are only allowed to submit three forwards, two d-men, and 1 goalie from their teams into the pool to be selected.
And I can easily see this as being a problem. Due to unbalanced representation (which is something conferences DON'T have to worry about), I'm going to say 2 forwards, 1 Dman, and 1 Goalie from each team may be in the pool. Ideally, this would be a
VERY LARGE pool, to accommodate the 3 teams and then some. Also, to prevent regional bias, I would like each national team vote submitted to include
at least one player, of any position, to the national team.
How I will calculate results
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POTY - Standard poll procedure (First place = 5pts, second place = 4pts, etc)
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Teams - National Team Vote = 2pts, Regional Team Vote = 1pt. Top 3 Forwards, 2 Dmen, and 1 Goalie get the national team nod, and then the next remaining for each region will (obviously) be named to the regional team.
As I said before,
I think the best way to do the voting would be in much the same way Wormser ran his Mid-Season Posters' Poll (i.e. by e-mail). After the votes have been tallied and the results made known, I'd be more than willing to supply the vote submission to anybody who asked for them (sans names of voters, of course).
If there are any protests to this process , please voice them now.
