Best Punter in 🇺🇸 Ray Guy Award voting open ⤵️https://t.co/Z4QZt67CWL Let's do this, Oscar!#Hokies 🦃 pic.twitter.com/mBEfXGgKTf— Virginia Tech Football (@HokiesFB) November 18, 2019
Time to do our thing TKP and overwhelm an online poll!
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Technically they've only narrowed it to semi-finalists at this point.
While you have a valid point, Bradburn's a finisher, he'll get there.
This vote will help get him to the finals.
I'd recommend maybe changing the title to get more people to vote... if they dont know it's a fan vote? Just a thought
30% of the vote so far, guy from Florida is winning wtf Hokies
I'm doing my best to influence it now.
Just voted. Oscar is way out ahead of 3rd and gaining on 1st
What does the fan vote actually do? From reading (and boy is it hard to read, that font is something else) their website, it looks like it's voted on by media folks and former winners. I mean, I definitely still voted, but I'm not sure it matters.
Usually it's a certain percentage or points. Essentially all the fan votes = an extra media member, etc.
F Lorida! We need more Hokies to support our Guy
I voted for Bradburn but that kid at Rutgers is criminally behind in votes. His punts like Bradburn's live inside the 10
I can't find this UF guy in the top 25 punt average.
Hypothetically, how would one vote multiple times?
Clear cache/cookies and if that doesn't work vote on mobile devices, computer, work computer, coworkers' computers (.../s?), etc.
Or just open link in an incognito window, vote, then close the window and do it again and again and again and again and again and again
Yeah...its way easier than this after you vote there's literally a button that says "return to poll" then you just vote again.
Theoretically would be insanely easy to write a program to vote every second.
When I do that is says that my vote has already been counted.
Weird its either never counted my votes or its completely broken regardless. Still should be able to just refresh incognito tabs over and over again.
Figured out what's happening. If your at work and your work blocks facebook your votes aren't counting. The vote script calls through facebook and is getting blocked by the firewall and failing.
my work doesnt block fb and also i can return to poll and continue voting
I can't tell you whats happening without being on your network but you can see in the Network window of chrome (F12 > Netwrok tab) clear everything before you click vote then click vote. The vote request goes through a facebookplugin and will turn red if it fails but deliver absolutely no notification to the user.
I'm also just guessing that its failing to count the vote. I have no idea what that plugin does. It could just be analytics after the vote is processed but reading the other requests that its making it seems to be tied in with the vote.
I use Facebook Container in Firefox, which blocks any Facebook scripts from outside the container and keeps everything inside the container isolated, so I guess I won't be voting.
I did my part, you can pick more than one punter. it would also have been nice if they added some stats to selection screen so people could make an informed decision.
Why is this a fan vote?
I'ts really simple.... It creates views. Views lead to ads. Ads lead to revenue. Lots of these awards across all sports have some fan vote that's not really meaningful in the end.
Vote people we will win!
Bump. GO VOTE.
Here's the link if you don't want to go through Twitter. I just voted 5 times by going back through the menu.
Ok can anyone link to the UF guys stats? How is he running away with this?
https://floridagators.com/sports/football/stats#individual-special
Just did an cut and paste job.
Yea not seeing what has him so high, honestly I'm surprised the A&M punter who is having a decent year and won it last year isn't even a semifinalist.
Easy, he has more people stuffing the vote like it was described in other posts. Any kind of popular vote open to the public like this is a joke as people will game the system.
Meant more why the Ray Guy committee included him and not A&M punter.
A&M guy is pretty comparable to the others
Individual Punting Statistics
# Player NO YDS AVG Long TB FC I20 50+ BLK
34 Mann, Braden 39 1880 48.21 68 2 6 18 22 1
We need the hero fixer who won us the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show my junior year to get this poll swinging back towards Oscar.
As I say on election day, vote early, vote often!
AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI!
Another vote for Oscar, but he's still not near the lead.
I'm not sure how far the fan vote goes... below from the Ray Guy site.
Based on the emphasis, we have a little bit to go vs. Townsend who boasts a higher I-20 and Fair Catch percentages. Oscar takes the cake on distance/net average.
My understanding (which isn't good) is that the Fan vote essentially counts as a single (extra) media vote.
Bradburn now leads by a very small margin
Why isn't the entire country of Australia voting him up?
Someone should translate it for them and post it to some .au websites.
The Ray Guy Award
The Ray Guy Award - named for football's premier punter - honors the nation's best collegiate punter. The Augusta Sports Council (ASC) created the award in 2000. Along with other awards such as the Heisman Trophy and the Doak Walker Award, the Ray Guy Award honors an important member of any football team. The ASC presents the award live on The Home Depot College Football Awards broadcast on ESPN from Atlanta, Georgia.
The Ray Guy Award winner is selected by a voting body of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sports information directors, national media and former Ray Guy Award winners. Punters are evaluated on their overall statistics and contribution to the team. Particular emphasis is placed on the following statistics; net average, percentage of total punts inside the 20-yard line and percentage of punts not returned.
Augusta orthopedic surgeon and sculptor Dr. John Savage Jr. created the bronze Ray Guy Award trophy in the likeness of the punting legend.
In Australian Translator...
Just voted and Oscar is in the lead as of this post
If you've ever been to a political straw poll, then you'll understand how internet polls work.
lol....
Oscar is 2nd by 0.4%, VOTE HOKIES VOTE!!
Oscar in 2nd by 1.5%. Surely we have some CS majors that could help.
well, this is some BS.
So fan vote means nothing? Wasn't UF guy 1 and Oscar 2?
I guess when your team's suck you punt a lot?!
How is the Cuss punter on there??? He isn't in top 2 for any punting category.
Wow. Just wow. This is why awards are crap.
Plus how are finalist out with still regular season games to go, plus conference championships and bowl games.
Bowl games are not taken into consideration and I am not even sure the conference championships are either (not sure when the ballots are due.)
Since this is a "National" award, they probably realized he was an Aussie and omitted him. (/s)
I hope this lights a fire under Bradburn's foot on Friday and he punts the ball clear out of Scott Stadium. (not /s)
Or, hear me out, he never even sees the field. That's what we all really want.
FTFY
Every. Damn. Time.
So it's rigged? Otherwise the finalists make no sense whatsoever
Yeah, but he's still a contender for the James Gayle Trash Tweet of the Year award:
How Oscar will respond to a member of the Ray Guy committee:
What the heck man? How did the others deserve it more? #robbed