2022 AFL Women's season 6 best and fairest

2022 AFL Women's season 6 best and fairest
Emily Bates, season 6 winner
Date	5 April 2022
Venue	Crown Melbourne
Hosted by	Sarah Jones
Winner	Emily Bates (Brisbane)
Television/radio coverage
Network	Fox Footy

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

Placing	Player	Votes
1st	Emily Bates (Brisbane)	21
2nd	Anne Hatchard (Adelaide)	20
3rd	Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide)	18
4th	Ashleigh Riddell (North Melbourne)	17
5th	Hayley Miller (Fremantle)	15
6th	Kiara Bowers (Fremantle)	13
=7th	Ellie Blackburn (Western Bulldogs)	12
	Brittany Bonnici (Collingwood)
	Jaimee Lambert (Collingwood)
=10th	Monique Conti (Richmond)	11
	Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne)
	Tilly Lucas-Rodd (St Kilda)

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.

References

1. "AFLW Awards". womens.afl. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
2. Black, Sarah (5 April 2022). "LION QUEEN: Bates crowned AFLW's best in nailbiting count". womens.afl. Retrieved 5 April 2022.