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Bontempelli got 82% of the coaches votes of Cripps.  But only 42% of the brownlow votes cripps got.  Ok, 2 different voting systems, but they are applied to the same performances. 

In 2024, Cripps got 40% as many Brownlow votes as Coaches votes, which seems really high to me.

The corresponding percentages for each Brownlow winner back to when Coaches votes started in 2005 surprised me somewhat. 

Highest to lowest:

42.5% Swan 2011

42% Judd 2010

40% Cripps 2024

38% Bartel 2008

37.5% Fyfe 2019, Priddis 2014

36% Wines 2021

34% Cripps 2022, Neale 2023, Watson 2012

33% Cooney 2008, Neale 2020

32% Mitchell 2018

31% Fyfe 2015

29% Martin 2017, Ablett 2009, Ablett 2013, Dangerfield 2016, Goodes 2006

22% Cousins 2005

So Cousins is a massive outlier on the low side here, the coaches have rated him way higher than the umps.  There is a big group between 29% and 34%, this looks like the normal range, with 12 of the 20 Brownlow winners in that range.  It is something of a shock to me there are bigger high side outliers than Cripps, the 2 results that were, shall we say, great surprises, when Judd and Swan won each others Brownlows in consecutive years. 

Nobody bets on coaches votes.  So if there was anything properly dodgy going on it would be with the Brownlow.  The 3 clubs represented amongst the big high side outliers - Carlton x 2, Collingwood and Geelong.  The clubs with all the connections. 

Not sure what to make of it all or even if it is telling us much.  But it is certainly surprising to me Cripps 2024 is not even in the top 2 %'s of  Browlow votes compared to coaches votes.