11-26-2020, 07:00 PMTate Wrote: I have been fortunate in my time in SIM leagues to have been nominated for awards, these two are my first in the SHL. Some of the nominations I felt I deserved to win, and others I thought I was just lucky to be in the conversation. When I look at my season, I believe I deserved to win just as much as Vilde did, and when the committee weighed the options and chose me as the winner I can tell you all that I felt immense pride and happiness. It's taken a lot of work to build the player that I have, and I've been battling year in and year out for Los Angeles the entire time, hoping that I would finally rise to this level. Reading the messages from people who don't believe I should have won the award is a downer, and while I can understand the debate, I just wish it wasn't about me. I respect why people believe Vilde should have won, but there have been few moments in my career where I was as happy as I was today. I wear this win with pride, and I will continue to do so. My only intention from here on out is to prove the doubters wrong.

Bring on the season, it's time to rock and roll baby.

I don't think anyone is saying you're undeserving or didn't have a great season. The issue is trying to figure out the rationale behind the decision.

A lot of the reasoning seems to surround the importance of the goalie compared to their team skill, but this is more of a defense for MVP and not best goalie. Additionally, I don't think you can simply dismiss big stats like GAA and wins. Save percentage is the biggest goalie stat and Vilde had the higher one (albeit a small margin).

Using a real life example, I think there was a goalie (on the Hawks, I can't remember) that won MVP on the worst team because they felt the team would have been even worse without his efforts and the comments keep making it sound like "well Vilde is on a better team soooo... take away Vilde and the Dragons are still good, etc..."

He wasn't the best goalie, but he was the MVP of the league.

Finally, to that guy's point about the shots, that could be a team philosophy difference, maybe the other team allows more shots, but they allow them from the outside or nondangerous areas. Without context (like save percentage on expected goals (or whatever the name of that stat is, essentially it's save percentage on dangerous shots) it doesn't mean a lot.

Both goalies are great and had tremendous seasons, but we want rationale and consistency for awards.

Best of luck going forward, you seem very committed and passionate and you'll only get better