Info from the voting page: YOUR VOTE COUNTS! Fan balloting counts for 1/3 of the total with the remaining 2/3 determined by NCAA Division I coaches and national media members. Please see the Selection Process section of the Senior CLASS Award website for more information.It's great to see our voting have an effect, but can anyone explain how this really works ? I voted for Kiah last year religiously, she finished well ahead of all candidates in the voting and somehow did not win in the end.
I don't think percentages make any difference, only the position. Players have won before when they finished 4th in the standings with around 14% of the vote, other times players had 28% of the vote and didn't win. They must use a ranking system like awarding x number of of points for finishing 1st, a lower # for finishing 2nd, etc. It would be nice to know what they do with the fan vote. I also think Ruth Hamblin will finish first, I have been in a number of voting wars with her supporters but I can't afford the time to do that much longer.Kelsey Mianto has dropped down to 15+% so she is on my vote each day now.
I actually sort of want the fan voting not to disadvantage Breanna, Moriah, or Kelsey and leave it up to the professionals to determine the winner.
I think that the professional voters (coaches and media) are probably much more consistent than the fans and they outweigh the fan voting by 2-1 so if they both select the same player it is unlikely that the fan voting would tip the scale - but you are right, I just checked the website and in each of the three groups a ranking is determined and a point value assigned by place and not by percentage.I don't think percentages make any difference, only the position. Players have won before when they finished 4th in the standings with around 14% of the vote, other times players had 28% of the vote and didn't win. They must use a ranking system like awarding x number of of points for finishing 1st, a lower # for finishing 2nd, etc. It would be nice to know what they do with the fan vote. I also think Ruth Hamblin will finish first, I have been in a number of voting wars with her supporters but I can't afford the time to do that much longer.