Best and Fairest (also known as Fairest and Best in some competitions, notably the Australian Football League) is the term commonly used in Australian sport to describe the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition while not receiving a suspension for misconduct or breaching the rules during that season. The Australian Football League (AFL is both the professional Australian national competition in the Sport of Australian Rules Football and its highest For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.
In the Australian Football League (formerly the VFL), the Brownlow Medal is awarded to the player who, provided he has not been suspended during the season, receives the most votes from the umpires for being the Fairest and Best player in games during the home and away season. The Australian Football League (AFL is both the professional Australian national competition in the Sport of Australian Rules Football and its highest History The Victorian Football Association (VFA was founded in 1877 on 17 May. For the list of winners of the award see List of Brownlow Medal winners. A referee is a person who has authority to make decisions about play in many Sports Officials in various sports are known by a variety of titles including referee In an organised Sports league, a season is the portion of one Year in which regulated Games of the sport are in session In each game, the umpires award three votes to the player they judge to be the best afield in that game, two votes to the second-best player and one vote to the third-best player. The votes are counted at a gala function on the Monday preceding the Grand Final. A Grand Final is a predominantly Australian sporting term used to describe a final that decides a league champion
Another "best and fairest" honour, the Leigh Matthews Trophy, is voted on by the AFL's players and awarded by their trade union, the AFL Players Association. The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming The AFL Players' Association or AFLPA is the representative body for all current and past professional Australian Football League players Unlike the Brownlow, players who have served disciplinary suspensions during the season are still eligible to win this award.
The best-and-fairest awards of the other major Australian rules football competitions are:
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