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    CTO Player of the Year(s)

    Better late than never...

     

    Here's an appetiser from our site owner Scotty: This article will be a first – in more ways than one. 

    "It’s the first article I have written in quite a while and It’s the first time we will announce two years’ worth of Player of the Year winners in a single article, and as you read through it you will discover more firsts as we go along. 
    First a word about our award history. We first dished this out – to Bobby Mann – in 2000/01 and it has consistently been one of only two external supporters’ awards recognized by the club since then, with the other being the Supporters Club PotY. It was also, until his tragic passing, included in Ian Broadfoot’s comprehensive and official club stats.  We take great pride in that and continue to seek to ensure the voting process is handled with fairness and integrity. Without further ado, let’s get going and start talking numbers.  

    Season 2019/2020: 
    The season all started normally enough. COVID & Coronavirus were not yet in the vernacular, social distancing was drinking in a different pub than the opposition fans, and our idea of low crowds was reserved for a wet and windy Tuesday night in the league cup where figures dropped below 1000. 
    The 2019/20 PotY calculation was ‘normal’ from the season start in July, right up to March and then of course with the season being cut short there were no awards for the final three months of the season...

    OK OK, enough from Scotty, once he starts he won't stop...
    Before we get too far into this season, we better tell you who has won the CTO Player of the Year trophy. With the previous couple of seasons being disrupted by covid 19, these results were put into cold storage and almost forgotten about.

    Step forward IBM and ictEWD. These guys have been working tirelessly in the background updating stats, adding current stats/results and new information to this site and keeping the voting polls going. Along with that Eric has produced a wonderful spreadsheet and Iain has collated all the votes over the last two seasons to come up with the Player of the Year for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. It doesn't make it any easier to sort out but the same player has won both titles despite missing a fair chunk of last season through injury, all this despite his hairband!

    2019-20 PotY.jpgHe is our 20th and 21st winner and the first to win it twice. He is very deserving of this award and scored his first goal for the club last season in his 47th appearance, a beauty against Dunfermline after cutting in from the right wing and rifling the ball across the keeper. He won the supporters Player of the Year last season as well. 

    He also picked up the Championship Player of the Month back in March and he has been playing an unfamiliar role at right back since coming back from injury. His hairband is the topic of much discussion.

    Signing on for another three seasons has ensured him of cult status at the Caledonian Stadium and we look forward to cheering him on for the foreseeable future.

     

     

    Carson Poty.png2019-2020 was a close run affair with David Carson (225 votes) edging out another fans favourite Shaun Rooney (206) with Mr consistency Mark Ridgers in third place (196) Carson came from behind with a late run to pip Rooney and Ridgers by winning the polls for February and March. Ridgers had a busy winter topping the votes in November and December with Rooney the main man for some swashbuckling performances in August and January. The top three had pulled well clear of the rest of the field.

     

     

    Scotty clarifies the voting system thus...
    In the 9 months where there were awards, 3 players each got Player of the Month twice and three more got that accolade once. 

    There were a total of 1842 votes cast over the course of the shortened season, which although down from previous years was still healthy given the circumstances. These were spread amongst a total of 23 players.

    Over the course of the season the player with the highest number of votes cast for them (regardless of the value of the votes 5/3/1) was David Carson with 225 votes. Second spot for 2019/2020 goes to Shaun Rooney with 206 votes with Mark Ridgers claiming third spot with 196 votes.

    2020-21 PotY.jpg2020-2021 turned out to be another success story for David Carson despite missing the start of the season through injury. Such was his impact on return he collected the trophy for an unprecedented second season. It was even tighter in this shortened season with only three votes separating the top two. 
    David Carson - 134 🏆
    Scott Allardice - 131 🥈
    Nikolay Todorov - 112 🥉
    So, belated congratulations to David.
    Monthly winners starting in October
     
    Dan Mackay in April - No doubt for his stunning goal and performance in the Scottish Cup against Ross County.

    He has won a few accolades since signing for Inverness, but none so prestigious as the CTO Player of the Year. Above he can be seen in the supporters Player of the Year photo <pic from ICTFC> below he is brandishing the Scottish Championship Player of the Month for March.

    Here's David with the Championship Player of the Month in March 2021

    May be an image of 1 person and text that says "PLAYER MARCH THE MONTH SCOTTISH 2021 CHAMPIONSHIP ONSP DAVID CALEDO HANTH 1"Here's our Bio of your CTO PotY for the last two seasons: David Carson spent his early career with Ashington. In 2014, Carson signed for Blackburn Rovers but he returned to non-league, playing with South Shields, Whitby Town and Morpeth Town from whence he came to ICT from on a free transfer on 15 May 2019. His last season in Evo-Stik East League saw the 23-year-old named league player of the season, as well as making the league team of the year, as Morpeth Town secured a league and Cup double. When Carson signed for Scottish Championship side Inverness Caledonian Thistle, John Robertson tipped him for success. He had made 37 appearances for Inverness but he had yet to score although he likes a yellow card gaining 8 bookings prior the the 20/21 season. David missed the start of season 20/21 through injury. He scored his first goal for the club in a 1-0 win over Dunfermline in his 47th appearance following MotM performances in his previous three games at right back.
    David has extended his stay by adding three years to his contract announced on 15th April 2021 which keeps him at Inverness until end of season 2024 and was the supporters player of the year choice.
     

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    Guys, I am getting there and will finish it tomorrow morning, it's been years since I have done anything on spreadsheets.

    Next season I will update it monthly which will be easier.

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    No rush Iain, just pick away at it. Keeps ya busy.

    Here's Scotty's article for the 2018/2019 winner

    ARTICLE

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    Here is the spreadsheet but I have a different winner from the vote totals and the PotY points.

    PotY 2020-2021.xlsx

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    yeah, there seems to be some issues. The original spreadsheet automatically worked out rank and points etc ... let me copy those formulae across .... 

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    Ok, I have re-calculated things .... 

    We have 7 'Player of the Month' recipients. These are the players that got the most individual votes in that month regardless of which game or whether they were 1/3/5 point choices.  

    • OCT: Scott Allardice
    • NOV: Kai Kennedy
    • DEC: Robbie Deas
    • JAN: Shane Sutherland (albeit we only had one game)
    • FEB: David Carson
    • MAR: David Carson
    • APR: Daniel Mackay

    These votes have no bearing on the POY totals but can give a good indication of form and usually they are not too different to the other table. 

    For POY points totals the points are weighted for each game with the overall value of points being the biggest factor. It was tight but with Scott Allardice taking 25 points before Xmas he looked a shoo-in, especially after Kai Kennedy, his nearest rival with 22 points, departed. However, the return of David Carson saw him take over the reins and accumulate 40 points from Feb-April to overtake Allardice who finished with 36 points. Sean Welsh was third with 32 points and rounding out the top 5 in this shortened season were Nikolay Todorov and Daniel Mackay on 26 points.

     

    For next season, or last season I can setup the formulae if required and then it should be a simple matter of plugging in the data after each game, each month or whatever frequency is required. This would then spit out the totals without loads of manual calculation. Also happy to listen to any format changes that are suggested ..... although i do like this format as it seems to be pretty accurate to fans views.   We started with just the POY points but added the player of the month stuff later ... The reason for this was because it was easy for a player to rack up loads of points and win it, but often 'lesser' players were getting a ton of 1 pointers (especially defenders and goalies) so adding the monthly total based on quantity of votes rather than value of votes was a good way to recognise the unsung heroes .... and at that time I would write an article each month with the rundown of the totals so could give them a bit of credit. 

     

     

    CTO-POY.xlsx

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    No got my head round this yet. :shrug:

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    I am not sure what Scotty did but the results are different there must be a way of doing the totals on the spreadsheet.

    I can see where I went wrong with David Carson in March getting the totals wrong.  I did try adding them up in the column to the right of the month and copy and paste onto the annual sheet but it didn't work so had to resort to paper and pencil and that's where the mistakes are made.

    I am happy to fill in the weekly results on the spreadsheet if someone can press the magic button to get the right results :rolleyes:

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    Lets take October as an example ..... 

    The votes received in each category are as shown in the first 3 columns for each game .... so against Dunfermline, Mark Ridgers got 4 individual votes totalling 14points - lets call these 'game points'. Those were 2x5 pointers, 1x3pt and 1x1pt. Over the course of the next two games he got 16 votes against Ayr and 1 against Abroath. The votes against Ayr had a value of 50 game points (6x5pt, 5x3pt, 5x1pt) and he had 1x3 pointer against Arbroath. His total votes for the month were 21 individual votes and that gets tallied up in the table to the far right of each month as shown below. The player with the highest quantity of individual votes that month is the player of the Month. Despite a man of the match performance against Ayr, it was not Ridgers ... it was Allardice as he got 31 individual votes across the three games. 

    For each game we also tally up the top 3 players in the game .... this is done by counting the value of the points ... so sticking with Ridgers, you will see his 14 points meant he was the third top points scorer in that game, Welsh got 20, and Allardice 15 - so Welsh gets the 5 POY points available in this game, Allardice gets 3 and Ridgers gets 1. In the next game, Ridgers got the highest total so he gets the 5 points for that game and so on ...

    I do see an error here though and it has to do with the rank sorting ... Theres some squirly red squares there ... let me verify my formulae again but that's the gist of it

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    Ok, that was quite a big error .... I had a formulae error in the ranking and it sent everything off course. the corrected table is attached and this one should be right. David Carson still wins it

    The revised data shows no variance in the player of the month for each month and the overall Player of the Year is the same.\ but the final points totals are slightly different -- the updated summary is below. 


    We have 7 'Player of the Month' recipients. These are the players that got the most individual votes in that month regardless of which game or whether they were 1/3/5 point choices.  

    • OCT: Scott Allardice
    • NOV: Kai Kennedy
    • DEC: Robbie Deas
    • JAN: Shane Sutherland (albeit we only had one game)
    • FEB: David Carson
    • MAR: David Carson
    • APR: Daniel Mackay

    These votes have no bearing on the POY totals but can give a good indication of form and usually they are not too different to the other table. 

    For POY points totals the points are weighted for each game with the overall value of points being the biggest factor. It was tight but with Scott Allardice taking 23 points before Xmas he looked a shoo-in, especially after Kai Kennedy, his nearest rival with 22 points, departed. However, the return of David Carson saw him take over the reins and accumulate 38 points from Feb-April to overtake Allardice who finished with 34 points. Sean Welsh was third with 29 points and rounding out the top 5 in this shortened season were Daniel Mackay on 23 points and the aforementioned Kai Kennedy on 22 points.

    CTO-POY_master.xlsx

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    Eric has started a new spreadsheet for next season and sent it to me to try and it adds up as you input :smile: which it didn't do on the one I did for this season :swear: 

    Something must have corrupt the spreadsheet when I copied it over and me not knowing enough about it caused all the problems.

    Eric will make one up for last season when he can and I will input the results from the polls so we will fill in that gap.

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    5 hours ago, IBM said:

    Eric has started a new spreadsheet for next season and sent it to me to try and it adds up as you input :smile: which it didn't do on the one I did for this season :swear: 

    Something must have corrupt the spreadsheet when I copied it over and me not knowing enough about it caused all the problems.

    Eric will make one up for last season when he can and I will input the results from the polls so we will fill in that gap.

    looks like you cleared the formulae ..... 

    here's a direct link to the file on my OneDrive : https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ahd8FX0fK-O0jcsLk3etR8HNjNVJVA?e=ldROQd

    If necessary, we can get on a Zoom call or similar to go through it. 

    mmm .. makes me wonder if that could be a feature on here from time to time .... Zoom calls .... everyone has to grab a pint or two and talk shite for a couple of hours .... just like having pre-match drinks back again 🙂

     

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    CTO zoom calls.

    Could be on to something?

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    Eric has produced a new spreadsheet for season 2019/20 and given me some online training.  I started inputting the data the numbers were adding up but had a glitch which Eric has sorted but I now have a new PC which has not yet got Excel installed yet but hope to get this done by the end of the week.

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    looks right to me - comparing it to how i did it in previous years ..... David Carson for 2019/20 and 2020/21 ... our 20th winner in 20 seasons of doing this and this year, our 21st winner and the first to ever win it twice ..... definitely got the core of a good article for this. will try to put something together but you guys may need to add some flesh to the bones as I obviously dont get to see the actual games even in COVID times. 

    thanks for doing this. I have a feeling I have some large drams to get when I am next in Inverness and the Innes is open to more than a handful of peeps ! 

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    Great Eric thanks for this.

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    looking good ... many thanks. 

    I am assuming the call for my name was for me to extract the digt and get an article written for 2020/21 and 2019/20 - will get on it 🙂 

     

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    Here's a wee draft I have put together scotty. Add any info/pics you want and tidy up any loose ends. Cheers. Have we any trophies for him???

    Better late than never...

    Before we get too far into this season, we better tell you who has won the CTO Player of the Year trophy. With the previous couple of seasons being disrupted by covid 19, these results were put into cold storage and almost forgotten about.

    Step forward IBM and EWD. These guys have been working tirelessly in the background updating stats, adding current stats/results and new information to this site and keeping the voting polls going. Along with that Eric has produced a wonderful spreadsheet and Iain has collated all the votes over the last two seasons to come up with the Player of the Year for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. It doesn't make it any easier to sort out but the same player has won both titles despite missing a fair chunk of last season through injury, all this despite his hairband!

    He is our 20th and 21st winner and the first to win it twice. He is very deserving of this award and scored his first goal for the club last season in his 47th appearance, a beauty against Dunfermline after cutting in from the right wing and rifling the ball across the keeper. He won the supporters Player of the Year last season as well. 

    2019-2020 was a close run affair with David Carson (225 votes) edging out another fans favourite Shaun Rooney (206) with Mr consistency Mark Ridgers in third place (196) Carson came from behind with a late run to pip Rooney and Ridgers by winning the polls for February and March. Ridgers must have had a busy winter topping the votes in November and December with Rooney the main man for some swashbuckling performances in August and January. Other monthly winners Tom Walsh (July), Sean Welsh (Sep), Charlie Trafford (Oct). April & May were covid casualties. The top three had pulled well clear of the rest of the field.

    PLAYER OF THE MONTH                      
    JUL        Tom Walsh             
    AUG        Shaun Rooney             
    SEP         Sean Welsh             
    OCT        Charlie Trafford             
    NOV         Mark Ridgers             
    DEC         Mark Ridgers             
    JAN        Shaun Rooney             
    FEB        David Carson             
    MAR        David Carson             
    APR        Nil            
    MAY        Nil            
    JUN        NIL            


    2020-2021 turned out to be another success story for David Carson despite missing the start of the season through injury. Such was his impact on return he collected the trophy for an unprecedented second season. It was even tighter in this shortened season with only three votes separating the top two. 
    David Carson - 134 🏆
    Scott Allardice - 131 🥈
    Nikolay Todorov - 112 🥉

    So, belated congratulations to David Carson. 🏆 :clapoverhead:

    Monthly winners starting in October
    Allardice, Kennedy, Deas, Sutherland, Carson, Carson, D Mackay - No doubt for his stunning goal and performance in the Scottish Cup against Ross County.

    Here's our Bio of your CTO PotY for the last two seasons: David Carson spent his early career with Ashington. In 2014, Carson signed for Blackburn Rovers but he returned to non-league, playing with South Shields, Whitby Town and Morpeth Town from whence he came to ICT from on a free transfer on 15 May 2019. His last season in Evo-Stik East League saw the 23-year-old named league player of the season, as well as making the league team of the year, as Morpeth Town secured a league and Cup double. When Carson signed for Scottish Championship side Inverness Caledonian Thistle, John Robertson tipped him for success. He had made 37 appearances for Inverness but he had yet to score although he likes a yellow card gaining 8 bookings prior the the 20/21 season. David missed the start of season 20/21 through injury. He scored his first goal for the club in a 1-0 win over Dunfermline in his 47th appearance following MotM performances in his previous three games at right back.
    David has extended his stay by adding three years to his contract announced on 15th April 2021 which keeps him at Inverness until end of season 2024 and was the supporters player of the year choice.
     

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    Good timing Don, as it's raining I have just logged on to update the new spreadsheet with the results for July.

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    Hi Iain, are you going to move all the completed polls in to here, or have you already done that. If not I can move them. Just go into moderation actions and follow dropdown menu. 

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    19 minutes ago, tm4tj said:

    Hi Iain, are you going to move all the completed polls in to here, or have you already done that. If not I can move them. Just go into moderation actions and follow dropdown menu. 

    Don that's it done.  I have updated the spreadsheet for July and will do it at the end of each month allowing for votes to come in.

     

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