09-28-2019, 02:15 PMJNH Wrote: Perhaps should look at how the SHL has a coach of the year award and GM of the year award.  Though I still think Tig should qualify for both because they built a great team and did great with that team on the ice.  

Though just for clarification when voting, are the voters taking into account past years moves when making GMOTY? Like DET iirc didn’t do too much roster movement before last season other than adding a couple rookies to their depth, most of their real roster building was done in the past (as it should be).  So is GMOTY really like best GM of the past few seasons with also good results this season? Or are they strictly judging it based on only things that happened this season?

We pretty heavily focus on the current season, including both the on ice results and moves made to improve the team. We looked a lot at some advanced stats like roster quality, CF%, PDO, etc. Specifically focusing on DET, their roster performed as expected while also having the highest average and actual TPE roster in the league. You raise a valid point that some of their big moves happened in previous seasons, so the process is imperfect. The committee was pretty consistently in agreement on DET outside the top 3, and I think, all in all, we got the correct finalists.