he Dally M is USUALLY awarded to the NRL's best player of the season, best positional players, best rookie, coach, captain and an assortment of other awards. However, there are some pretty egregious exceptions to the rule where players are awarded over a clearly better player or even players. The system in place is antiquated, open to significant voting bias and skews very heavily towards rocks and diamonds players over consistent performers.
We hear the complaints every season from fans and media when [player-I-don't-like] wins an award over [player-from-my-team]. What we don't hear are solutions to fixing the system. Here's my proposal, for better (maybe) or worse (probably): Problems
Solutions Judges Judges must meet the following criteria:
1. Annual awards are granted purely on the points accumulated for the season (NRL and NRLW):
What do you think? Do you have any solutions to improve the quality of the Dally Ms? Related: Dally M voting 2019 and 2020
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