Classic Player Of the Year?

By classic player, do you mean best player who plays classic or person who's like done the most for the community?

Because if it's the most for the community... there's little question as to who it is :P

I'd probably vote for whiffy penguin, the guy's had great PE results and he won the one Eternal Struggle that was held this year.  He also innovated a few deck types, especially his Trinket Stalker deck which a few people have had success with.

Damn bcs ranking, Obviously USC should be playing in the title game...

Edited by dangerlinto - 06 Dec 2008 at 9:44am

Also, I think Whiffy and Snuffy would be my 1 and 2 choices for PoY.  Both have put up great results while championing a deck of their choice, but also scored with other decks.  3rd would be LSV as he's almost always an auto-T8 too. 

Oh definintly.  There are a lot of strong players out there.  Those were just my top 3.  LSV doesn't play in QUITE as many Classic events, but he puts together randomly good decks almost every time, and it's almost always a different deck.

If you do do that, you should get someone to sponsor it, like MTGOtraders or ABUGames so that theres atleast a small incentive/reward for the players, which would be cool.  Also, I would be interested in seeing who would have won the past year, since the archive of T8s should allow us to see whoes won.

If nobody objects I could add this feature to my monthly articles on PUREMTGO.

I write a series "Eternal Wisdom" which already covers data from the Top 8 of each daily/PE event. So it would not be difficult to keep a running tally.  I could keep he table updated and public. Maybe Worth would front a prize for this - Id also be happy to contact him.

Yeah I like your proposals for scoring this. The other tie breaker could be different deck achtypes but that could be a bit subjective and might cause problems.  As I keep track of the decktype also it might not be that hard. It could encourage people to go rogue to win the title towards the end. For example if two players are tided on 23 Top8s but one player has used thresh, necrostorm, grindstone and the other player has used 8 different decks he should win because he is a more diverse player and capable of piloting different decks to the TOP.    I have approached Worth RE prize support but I am not sure this is something he would be interested in because then each format would want this support and it might get silly!

obv that whiffy character is the best! seriously though  there are a lot of names that i would consider in no order

I say this year is a wash, lets put the next year together where we can have more solid and acurate data.  To say the end of the year was all that matters would be crazy, honestly mikeman won a ton of top 8 from my memory, as well as iceage, and ace of drafts had a string of 1,2, and 4 spots for about a month or two.  So just using data from the last few months would only disrespect those who consistantly won since january of this year.  That list is very acurate for the end of the year though and if i had to choose from it for the last quarter of the year I would be satisfied, however since its a player of the year race i would say we just set up a system for next year and do it right.

I'd be up for running a "tournament of champions".  But I think there are more problems than people realize.

What about a Champions League ??