Offensive MVP
A first team, or primary vote gives a player 2 pts and a second team or runner-up vote gives a player 1 pt. Most points wins. Since 6 people voted, 12 pts would be a unanimous selection.
Offensive MVP
MVP: Drew Brees (8 pts, 3 1st place votes)
Runner-Up: Chris Johnson (5 pts, 2 1st place votes)
Also receiving votes: Aaron Rodgers (3 pts, 1 1st place vote), Adrian Peterson (1 pt), Peyton Manning (1 pt)
The top two was probably predictable here. It was likely CJs early season stumble that gave Brees the top spot here. It is interesting that CJ got as much love as he did from a raw statistical perspective since he placed 5th in total points scored this year and 4th in pts per game.
I voted as I did for QB giving Rodgers my top vote and Manning my second vote. To me, CJ is the RB equivalent of Brees. Really, really good but he had a couple more stumbles this year then Rodgers and Peyton in a year with several excellent offensive players.
I don't really see a bad vote among this group although my runner-up vote for Peyton looks like the most on the limb vote since he didn't even make the top 2 at his position.
Labels: 2009
posted by Doug Schulz
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2 Comments:
I counted at least 5 games that CJ won for Bill he would have otherwise lost if CJ only scored for average this year. CJ is the major reason Bill won the division. With the exception of 1 game, Capo would have won the games he did, with or without Brees. I also count 4 games where Rodgers was directly responsible for a win, so maybe he deserved more consideration -- than I gave him. :-) Flannel didn't win enough to consider Manning. For MVP, I tend to look at what is the record without that particular player (and also assuming someone else is in that position and scores an average amount of points for the position) and how much that person made a difference, not just stats.
There is certainly validity to that approach. In past years I've also looked at what percentage of a team's scores (offensive, defensive, or total as appropriate) a player contributed for MVP type awards. But just didn't have the time to do that this year.
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