2015 Brownlow Medal

December 2017 December 2017 2015 Brownlow Medal Nathan-Fyfe-Rd-9-2014.jpg 200px 2015 Brownlow Medallist, Nat Fyfe 28 September Crown Palladium Winner Nat Fyfe ()31 votes Seven NetworkFox Footy Bruce McAvaney 2014 Brownlow Medal 2016 The 2015 Brownlow Medal was the 88th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season.AFL Record Season Guide 2016 Lovett, Michael Slattery Media Group Docklands, Victoria 593 Nat Fyfe of the Fremantle Football Club won the medal by polling thirty-one votes during the 2015 AFL season.2015 Brownlow Medal http://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow2015.html AFL Tables 8 November 2016 He became the first player to win the Brownlow Medal. Leading vote-getters Player Votes 1st Nat Fyfe () 31 2nd Matt Priddis (WC) 28 3rd Sam Mitchell () 26 4th Josh Kennedy () 25 5th Dan Hannebery () 24 6th Patrick Dangerfield () 22 7th Dustin Martin () 21 =8th David Mundy () 19Callan Ward () 10th Todd Goldstein () 18 Voting procedure The three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening.Brownlow Medal history and winners - AFL.com.au http://www.afl.com.au/news/event-news/brownlow/about-the-brownlow 27 August 2018 afl.com.au A change was made in 2015 to the rules under which players could become ineligible for the Brownlow Medal. Under previous rules, players were ineligible if found guilty at the AFL Tribunal of an offence with a base penalty equal to or greater than a one-match suspension, even if the player then avoided suspension by taking an early guilty plea after the Match Review Panel's findings. Under the new rules:http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-11-25/brownlow-medal-shakeup The Nat Fyfe rule: Brownlow Medal shake-up Nathan Schmook 25 November 2015 14 September 2015 AFL.com.au Telstra Media The penalty for all low-end offences for which a player could previously have received a reprimand but avoided suspension was changed to a $1000 fine for the first offence within a season, a $1500 fine for the second offence within a season, and a one-match suspension for the third offence within a season Players would become ineligible for the Brownlow medal only if they incurred a suspension Due to these changes, there were just 34 players ineligible in 2015, compared with 61 in 2014.http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-08-28/who-is-ineligible-for-this-years-brownlow-medal Who's ineligible for this year's Brownlow? Ben Guthrie 28 August 2015 AFL.com.au Telstra Media On 3 July 2015, the round 14 match between and was cancelled following the death of Adelaide coach, Phil Walsh, resulting in players from those teams having one fewer game available to them to poll votes.http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-07-03/crowscats-cancelled-what-it-means Crows-Cats cancelled: What does it mean? AFL.com.au Telstra Media Travis King 3 July 2015 8 July 2015 Various commentators made proposals to remove this disadvantage, such as removing all round 14 votes from the count or awarding double votes for the return match between Adelaide and Geelong in round 23; but the AFL rejected all proposals, pointing out that the disadvantage to the players involved was no different from the case of players who had missed the chance to poll votes in previous Brownlow medals due to their participation in interstate matches.Herald Sun News Corp Australia Melbourne, VIC Wayne Carey suggests double Brownlow votes in Geelong v Adelaide clash 1 September 2015 14 September 2015 Eliza Sewell http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/wayne-carey-suggests-double-brownlow-votes-in-geelong-v-adelaide-clash/story-fni5f22o-1227507117910 The missing game ended up having no impact on the medal, as the highest-polling player from those clubs (Adelaide's Patrick Dangerfield) was nine votes behind the winner. References Category:2015 AFL season 2015