Results have been counted, and thank-you to everyone who voted across the season.
If you are new to this, then Man of the Match is a feature that has been running on TorquayFans.com and Twitter since the beginning of the 2010/11 season. After each league game, a thread is created for fans who attended the match to vote for their top five performers in order. After each game the results are added up with the winning player declared the Man of the Match. However all nominated players receive points, weighted in order of how highly the fans rated them.
The idea is that each game counts for 1/46th of the final total, therefore every game counts equally. Just like the league points are awarded. It was devised in the summer of 2010 because Mustapha Carayol won end of season awards despite having barely played before March, so tries to account for recency bias and offer a different opinion than the end of season voted awards.
You can view all the winners here: https://www.torquayfanstats.com/fan-vot ... f-the-year
Sometimes the winners have matched the official winners, but not always. Joe Lewis the biggest example in 2021/22. With 15 years of data now some interesting comparisons can be made.
Final Finishing Positions
1. Sam Dreyer (148)
2. Cody Cooke (126)
3. Jordan Young (112)
4. Dan Hayfield (95)
5. James Hamon (94)
6. Jordan Dyer (82)
7. Lirak Hasani (77)
8. Omar Mussa (72)
9. Jay Foulston (67)
10. Finley Craske (61)
11. Matt Carson (57)
12. Will Jenkins Davies (55)
13. Matt Jay (48)
14. Oscar Threlkeld (45)
15. Jordan Thomas (38)
16. Ed Palmer (37)
17. Offrande Zanzala (26)
18. Dylan Morgan (19)
19. Finn Tonks (18)
20. Bradley Ash (16)
21. Ben Seymour (12)
22. Dean Moxey (8 )
23. Roddy Collins (3)
This was a very different season in that there is a winner, who played in virtually all games, scoring the most points. Sam Dreyer is the spiritual winner (as well as actual winner...) of what this feature tries to do.
On points per start though, three players overtake him as a result of being close enough in the scoring but missing a games through injury (Cooke), late arrival (Young) and not being selected regularly (Mussa).
Mussa and Cooke in particular gain from that metric, as they did score some points in games they came on as a sub. In a points per appearance, Jordan Young tops the metric.
So there you have it, Sam Dreyer wins. Mussa wins on points per start, Young wins on points per appearance and Cooke is close enough to be 2nd, 2nd and 3rd in those categories, so would win the combined award despite not winning any of them. Simple
Full results for 2024/25 including individual winners and Player of the Month: https://www.torquayfanstats.com/fan-vot ... ar-2024-25
