2022 AFL Women's season 6 best and fairest explained

2022 AFL Women's season 6
best and fairest
Date:5 April 2022
Venue:Crown Melbourne
Host:Sarah Jones
Winner:Emily Bates
Network:Fox Footy
Previous:2021
Main:AFL Women's best and fairest
Next:2022 (S7)

The 2022 AFL Women's season 6 best and fairest award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest player during 2022 AFL Women's season 6.[1] Emily Bates of the Brisbane Lions won the award with 21 votes.[2]

Leading votegetters

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1st Emily Bates 21
2nd Anne Hatchard 20
3rd Ebony Marinoff 18
4th Ashleigh Riddell 17
5th Hayley Miller 15
6th Kiara Bowers 13
=7th Ellie Blackburn 12
Brittany Bonnici
Jaimee Lambert
=10th Monique Conti 11
Jasmine Garner
Tilly Lucas-Rodd

Voting procedure

The three field umpires (the umpires who control the flow of the game, as opposed to goal or boundary umpires) confer after each match and award three votes, two votes and one vote to the players they regard as the best, second-best and third-best in the match, respectively. The votes are kept secret until the awards night, and are read and tallied on the evening.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AFLW Awards. womens.afl. 20 April 2021.
  2. News: Black. Sarah. LION QUEEN: Bates crowned AFLW's best in nailbiting count. womens.afl. 5 April 2022. 5 April 2022.