*S25 Voting Bias

[Modern_Duke]

Like I've done the past two seasons, here is the annual study of the bias of awards voters. I slightly fixed the formula from last season, but nothing major. Same basic idea. If Player X finished 3rd in their positional award, but their GMs voted them as 1st, the GMs get a -2. If they instead left them out of their top three, they get +1, etc.

ISFL Most to Least Average Bias
1. PHI -1.600
2. YKW -1.400
3. BAL -1.250
4. SJS -1.000
5. AUS -1.000
6. ARI -1.000
7. CHI -0.833
8. SDCore (COL) -0.769
9. iStegosauruz (AUS) -0.600
10. HON -0.571
11. SAR -0.545
12. COL -0.538
13. NYS -0.538
14. NOLA -0.500
15. OCO -0.417
16. Bex (NOLA) -0.125
17. Colabear (YKW) -0.000
18. BER -0.000

For comparison, OCO was the most biased last season with a -1.375. Again, slightly altered formula, but should be comparable - if anything voters should show as less biased now...but that doesn't seem to be the case. Last season only nine voters (about half) had scores of -0.500 or worse, now this season its 14 out of 18. Also of note, OCO went from most biased to nearly the least. Baltimore went from least biased to one of the most. Kudos again to Bex who has been among the best scores each season, and HO in general does pretty well here, though not as good as last season.

DSFL Most to Least Average Bias
1. MIN -1.462
2. NOR -1.000
3. KCC -0.800
4. LON -0.688
5. POR -0.571
6. MB -0.091
7. Faded (MB) -0.000
8. Nunc (TIJ) -0.000
9. DAL -0.000
10. TIJ -0.000
11. TomHanks (TIJ) +0.167
12. Ephenssta (KC) +0.400

Slight surprise, as I was expecting DSFL voters to be more biased. Minnesota has a high number there (and were also the most biased last season with an astonishing -2.2), but for the most part this is pretty good.

Biggest Homer Votes
Arizona - Defensive Performance of the Year - Galf Wilf (voted 1st, actually 5th)
Philadelphia - Returner of the Year - Flash Panda (voted 1st, actually 5th)
Minnesota - MVP - Mike Rotchburns (voted 1st, actually 4th)
Minnesota - Defensive Player of the Year - Damien Blackfyre (voted 1st, actually 4th)
Minnesota - Offensive Rookie of the Year - Ryan Negs (voted 1st, actually 4th)
Baltimore - Offensive Player of the Year - Doug Howlett (voted 1st, actually 4th)
Philadelphia - Offensive Lineman of the Year - Simon Tremblay (voted 1st, actually 4th)
New York - MVP - Ashley Owens (voted 1st, actually 4th)

Harshest Votes
TomHanks (TIJ) - Defensive Rookie of the Year - Vincent Jones (unvoted, actually 2nd)
Eph (KC) - Returner of the Year - Derek Wildstar (unvoted, actually 2nd)

[BenDover]

DSFL Teams can’t touch our biased votes record

[Memento Mori]

Simon Tremblay would have won Offensive Lineman of the Year if they only counted the legal votes.

[Starboy]

I’ll take being biased for voting the correct Offensive Player of the Year. 9th in all time catches and 4th in all time yards should get you all the awards

[GlimsTC]

Always a really interesting list to see. Feels GOOD to be averagely biased

[Mooty99]

I love this piece of work every season, time for the most biased GMs from the ISFL and DSFL to be paraded through the streets naked with the shame Bell ringing behind them

[Faded]

fuck bias all my homies hate bias

[Crunk]

Wait, I put our awards in...

Is the DPerf one me... not coming second in something?

Thank you, Duke.