After one Dangergawn medal and two All Australian jerseys, Max Gawn has officially won his first MSHB best and fairest trophy.
Each year has brought about a new winner, with inaugural winner Zach Merrett (2016) followed by Dayne Zorko (2017) and now Max Gawn in 2018.
Gawn earned the golden spoils after a year of extremely impressive and consistent scores. It wasn’t even a close race, with Gawn head, beard and shoulders above the rest. Max Gawn polled in the best five 14 times and coincidentally scored 14 hundreds (although one hundred wasn’t in the best five and one 91 was)
Dyson Heppell earned second position with a huge swag of hundreds over the year. Dayne Beams claimed his first top-three position with numerous hundreds also, many of which came late.
Every week, the top five scores for MaherShalalHashBaz count towards the player’s running tally. Such a system meant that Bryce Gibbs, Dayne Zorko and Zach Merrett posted nine hundreds between them that went unrewarded. The full top ten below:
1. Max Gawn 1702
2. Dyson Heppell 1385
3. Dayne Beams 1329
4. Zach Merrett 1207
5. Bryce Gibbs 1159
6. Justin Westhoff 1017
7. Dayne Zorko 1007
8. Tom Phillips 941
9. Jack Steven 828
10. Josh Dunkley 667
The So Very Valuable Award for best draftee went to Bailey Williams. The Scrapheap Award for best Waiver Wire pick-up went to Chris Mayne. The August Wonder Award for best finals performance went to Dyson Heppell. And the Day-in-the-Mud Award for highest individual score throughout the year went to Dayne Zorko for his 176.
Congratulations to all excellent performers, particularly to Max Gawn. Bring on 2019!!