2022 AFL Women's season 7 best and fairest

2022 AFL Women's season 7 best and fairest
Ally Anderson, season 7 winner
Date	22 November 2022
Venue	Crown Melbourne
Hosted by	Sarah Jones
Winner	Ally Anderson (Brisbane)
Television/radio coverage
Network	Fox Footy

The 2022 AFL Women's season 7 best and fairest award was presented to the player adjudged the best and fairest player during 2022 AFL Women's season 7.[1] Brisbane's Ally Anderson won the award with 21 votes, becoming the second consecutive Brisbane player to win the award after teammate Emily Bates won the season 6 award.[2] Having missed selection in the 2022 AFL Women's season 7 All-Australian team, Anderson became the first AFLW player to win the league best and fairest award but miss All-Australian selection in the same season.[3]

Leading votegetters

Placing	Player	Votes
1	Ally Anderson (Brisbane)	21
2	Monique Conti (Richmond)	19
3	Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide)	18
4	Madison Prespakis (Essendon)	17
5	Olivia Purcell (Melbourne)	16
6	Alyce Parker (Greater Western Sydney)	15
	Charlie Rowbottom (Gold Coast)
	Georgie Prespakis (Geelong)*
9	Ellie Blackburn (Western Bulldogs)	14
	Kiara Bowers (Fremantle)

* Georgie Prespakis was ineligible to win the award after being suspended by the AFL Tribunal during the home-and-away season.[4]

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 22 November 2022.
2. Smith, Martin (22 November 2022). "Lions Queen: Anderson crowned the league's best after a thrilling count". womens.afl. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
3. O'Halloran, Kate (22 November 2022). "Brisbane Lion Ally Anderson wins AFLW best and fairest, Hannah Ewings named rising star". ABC News. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
4. Black, Sarah; Bastiani, Gemma (22 November 2022). "Guilty: Prespakis, Bannister bans upheld after long hearings". womens.afl. Retrieved 22 November 2022.