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Here we go, with the most anticipated award...

MVP

3rd - (tie) Kristian Maisach (Doncaster)

The German had a stellar season running the point for the successful Doncaster Flames this season. His scoring was as steady as it goes - only dipping below 16 points in a game once for the season - and he occasionally lit it up with several 30 point games. Maisach also proved himself a good distributer, and his rebounding from the PG position was top notch.

Season stats: 23 points, 4.1 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 48% FG, 1.5 steals

3rd (tie) - Rony Borell

The big Frenchman continues to deliver stellar performances in the ABBL, anchoring the offense and defense of the dominant Black Label Society team. The big man is efficient on offense, with a 52% FG%, and can generally be relied upon for 15-20 points a night. Borell was dominant on the glass this season, leading the league in rebounds per 48 mins, and he is a big reason why the Society have the league's best defense.

Season stats: 14.9 points, 16.7 rebounds, 52% FG, 1.9 blocks.

2nd - Leslie Gafa (Wombats)

After a sluggish start to the season, including a brief layoff with injury, Gafa quickly showed why he is one of the league's most feared scorers. Gafa led the league in points per 48 minutes, with the season highlight his 48 points against the Pancakes. With 11 games above 20 points, and 7 above 30, Gafa rarely had on off night, and won a league leading 4 MVP of the round awards. Gafa is showing no signs of slowing down, and promises to be among the league leaders in scorer for a couple of seasons yet.

Season stats: 25.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 48% FG.

1st - Plinio Couto Costa (Pancakes)

A couple of weeks ago, it would have taken a brave man to predict Couto Costa as the league MVP. Couto's shot was off and he missed the allstar game as a result. However, the all star snub spurred Couto into action, with the second half of the season littered with efficient scoring performances, such as his 42 points (50% FG) against the Wombats, and his 37 points (15-26) against the Giants. Couto managed to take out the scoring title in a close contest. In addition to his scoring prowess, Couto is an able passer, cracking double digit assists twice, and his defense is among the league's best. All this makes Couto Costa a worth winner of the MVP award, congrats!

Season stats: 25.9 points, 4.8 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 1.5 steals, 44% FG.

Nemkovics FG% probably counted against him. Cima was stiff no doubt, and probably would have been the next picked.

As far as Ravasio goes, I think he played much of the season at PF, so Doyle is the relevant consideration there. I felt Doyle had the better season (but of course, you are welcome to disagree)

As llama said Cima was next in line, But at the end of the day the guards are what lead a team and we found it hard to justify going with a player on a 25% win and under team over someone on a playoff team.

I had Ravasio in my votes but i think i was the only one so he just didn't get enough to have a crack.

The same goes for every award to do with team sports, a player from a team that has struggled all year will struggle for a run over someone on a successful team even if they have slightly better numbers.


Last edited by C-Cat at 9/22/2010 5:05:15 AM

I'll chuck my 2 cents in as well :P


In the end, the round by round write ups didn't go very heavily towards the final results. It's just too easy to have 1 good game here and there and isn't necessarily accurate of season performance. I still think it's a fun thing to do and hopefully provides a bit of discussion or entertainment for some people when the forums are a bit quiet.

We did go through every single team and looked at the stats and performance of every player so there were a lot in the mix but some players just weren't there yet and when it was close, team performance was taken in to account and often put a player over another. This is the way it's done with the NBA and just seemed to make sense for us to do it that way as well.
You can look at the stats of say Monta Ellis, David Lee, Zach Randolph, Danny Granger, even Chris Bosh and stat wise you could say that they should be in the MVP running but you never really hear of these kind of players in the MVP running at the end of the season and part of that is the team performance not being good enough.
That said, team performance is only a small factor that basically separates two close players so if a player is good enough then he'll still get up in the end.

Well done gents - great work all season. Desbos was robbed! or not. Thanks for all the hard work.

your most welcome mr noodles, thank you for your appreciation!

to everyone who made this,

i would like to say thank you and making the effort of making every season an interesting thing for the league. you guys are the reason why this league is alive.

im not saying this because my players got a lot reward. but i appreciate it.

to those who says my team is a bot team . . . . anyways im always here im not as active as before. but ill be tweaking my team soon so im sure to get ready to get beaten now more often than before.

so im sure a lot of you will be delighted with the rebuilding process.

anyways good luck to all and more power mates!