For anyone interested, I've done my own Brownlow tracker this year and I've compiled one version with what I believe are "pretty universal votes" and one version that is "hmm, I can see how someone else might give (x) 1 vote instead of 2 votes, 3 votes instead of 2, etc."
From version 1 -
1. Nick Daicos (33 votes)
2. Tim Taranto (31 votes)
3. Marcus Bontempelli (30 votes)
4. Lachie Neale (28 votes)
5. Zak Butters (28 votes)
6. Christian Petracca (26 votes)
7. Connor Rozee (26 votes)
8. Jack Sinclair (24 votes)
9. Stephen Coniglio (24 votes)
10. Zach Merrett (21 votes)
Leader after round 10: Nick Daicos (17 votes)
Leader after round 15: Nick Daicos & Tim Taranto (24 votes)
From version 2 -
1. Marcus Bontempelli (32 votes)
2. Nick Daicos (30 votes)
3. Tim Taranto (30 votes)
4. Zak Butters (29 votes)
5. Connor Rozee (27 votes)
6. Lachie Neale (26 votes)
7. Jack Sinclair (24 votes)
8. Christian Petracca (23 votes)
9. Zach Merrett (22 votes)
10. Jordan Dawson (21 votes)
Leader after round 10: Clayton Oliver and Nick Daicos (15 votes)
Leader after round 15: Tim Taranto (24 votes)
Some things to note:
- I am not SC focused for this. Umps see the game differently, so possessions, CP, goals, clearances, tackles, all very important.
- Clangers do not matter to me. Wines Brownlow year was full of high possession games with insane amount of clangers and poor DE%. Umps apparently do not care about this that much.
- There might be a vote discrepancy between some players because of the "I can see how some people might give (x) 1 vote instead of 2, 2 votes instead of 3, etc."
- Petracca, Butters and Bont all had the unfortunate luxury of their teammates stealing votes from them. Viney, Rozee and Liberatore all had pretty insane years and can easily steal votes from those 3. Daicos however, has very little competition when he's dropping 40 touches and 2 goals.
- Brownlow predictor has Neale winning it with 32, but I'm not sure how he cops some of those votes. In Round 11, they give him 2 votes but they lost by 3 goals and Dawson, Rankine and Laird tore that game apart. He could definitely poll 2, but I didn't give him anything. The nature of Brownlow votes are crazy so give -1, -2, -3 or +1, +2, +3 to all of these overall vote counts.
- I swear I am not biased. Taranto actually had a pretty insane first half of the season, but then fell off hard after the bye. He still sneaks in a few 2-3 vote performances against Hawthorn and Wet Toast.