Best Of

On the subject of Oxford, can we all just wait until we have had all three sides of the story?

The leaders in the three categories:

Overall Votes:

1. Mawson - 191
2. Mehmeti - 168
3. Stryjek - 152
4. Scowen - 138
5. Wing - 135
6. Wheeler - 131

Votes per start (minimum 10 starts):

1. Mawson - 9.55
2. Wheeler - 9.35
3. Scowen - 9.20
4. Freeman - 8.18
5. Stryjek - 7.32
6. Mehmeti - 7.00

MOTM Awards:

1. Mawson - 5
2. Wing - 4
3. Stryjek - 3
4. Forino - 3
5. Mehmeti - 2
6. Wheeler - 2

Mawson remains the leader in all three categories even with the time out, and is my favourite currently for Player of the Season. There are some fantastic candidates though, with Wheeler making serious strides recently to make the top 6 in overall votes and be 2nd in votes per start. Wing has had several MOTM performances, second only to Alfie, while Scowen, Stryjek and Mehmeti are consistent in their excellence.

Final thought: Scowen won last season's categories with 417 votes, 11.58 votes per start and 8 MOTM awards. It is going to take some going for anyone to top that! The nearest challenger for votes was Vokes with 249.

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Here are the latest overall standings across the three categories:

Overall MOTM Votes:

1. Mawson - 165
2. Mehmeti - 162
3. Stryjek - 127
4. Scowen - 103
5. Wing - 99

Votes Per Start (minimum 7 starts):

1. Scowen - 9.36
2. Mawson - 9.17
3. Forino - 8.50
4. Freeman - 8.40
5. Mehmeti - 8.10

Overall MOTM awards:

1. Mawson - 4
2. Stryjek - 3
3. Wing - 3
4. Forino - 3
5. Mehmeti - 2

I suspect Alfie has the inside track on Player of the Season given his overall performance, though Scowen would be pushing harder without all that lost time to injury. That being said, Josh has not won a MOTM in his 11 starts. If Mehmeti stays, one would think he has a shot too.

The 'big four' this season clearly appear to be Mawson, Mehmeti, Stryjek and Scowen based on the voting to date, though Lewis Wing does appear in two of the top fives. Forino, like Scowen, has not played enough, though he has been fantastic when he has.

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