AFL Brownlow Medal predictor 2025: Who will win the award?<\/a><\/p>\nIt was hard to fathom that Daicos polling 38 votes would not result in a winning effort, considering that total would have won every other count in history.<\/p>\n
It then makes it even harder to fathom that Ben Cousins won the Brownlow in 2005 with just 20 votes.<\/p>\n
That would have placed him in 14th position last year.<\/p>\n
From 2000 to 2010, the average winning vote was 25.7, and no winner peaked over 30.<\/p>\n
Since then, the average has increased to 32.4, with nine separate winners all above 30.<\/p>\n
There is a clear trend of Brownlow votes getting higher.<\/p>\n
In 2011, Dane Swan broke Robert Harvey\u2019s long-standing record of 32 Brownlow votes, which he achieved in 1998.<\/p>\n
Since Swan set the record at 34 in 2011, that record was broken or equalled four more times in the following 14 years.<\/p>\n
Patrick Dangerfield\u2019s 35 in 2016 was overtaken by Dustin Martin\u2019s 36 votes the very next year.<\/p>\n
Ollie Wines then equalled Martin\u2019s 36 in 2021, until Cripps blew everyone out of the water with his 45 votes.<\/p>\n
Why could this be?<\/p>\n
Is there more of a reliance on one sole star midfielder in today’s game, compared to a midfield by committee?<\/p>\n
Could it be that social media and the notoriety of certain players has influenced the umpires’ voting?<\/p>\n
Or has the modern game\u2014which so heavily relies on midfielders\u2014taken away votes from full forwards such as Tony Lockett, who won the 1987 Brownlow Medal?<\/p>\n
There is no definitive answer as to why, but we may see this trend continue.<\/p>\n
And Daicos could be the next one to break it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are we set to see yet another record-breaking Brownlow Medal count? Recent history would suggest so. There has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-158723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}