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The 2016 Brownlow Medal was the 89th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Australian Football League (AFL) home and away season.[1] Patrick Dangerfield of the Geelong Football Club won the medal by polling thirty-five votes during the 2016 AFL season, at the time the most by any player under the 3-2-1 voting system, beating the previous record of 34 votes set by Dane Swan in 2011.[2]
2016 Brownlow Medal | |
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Date | 26 September |
Location | Crown Palladium |
Hosted by | Bruce McAvaney |
Winner | Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong) 35 votes |
Television/radio coverage | |
Network | Seven Network Fox Footy Telstra |
Player | Votes | |
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1st | Patrick Dangerfield (Geelong) | 35 |
2nd | Luke Parker (Sydney) | 26 |
3rd | Dustin Martin (Richmond) | 25 |
Rory Sloane (Adelaide)* | 24 | |
=4th | Andrew Gaff (West Coast) | 21 |
Dan Hannebery (Sydney) | ||
Adam Treloar (Collingwood) | ||
=7th | Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs) | 20 |
Lachie Neale (Fremantle) | ||
=9th | Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide) | 19 |
Zach Merrett (Essendon) | ||
Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda) |
The three field umpires (those umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes, and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and they are read and tallied on the evening.[3]
A change was made in 2015 to the rules under which players could become ineligible for the Brownlow Medal. Under previous rules, players were ineligible if found guilty at the AFL Tribunal of an offence with a base penalty equal to or greater than a one-match suspension, even if the player then avoided suspension by taking an early guilty plea after the Match Review Panel's findings. Under the rules:[4]
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