Player of the Year

Player of the Year is an award given at the end of a Pro Tour season to the Magic player with the highest number of Pro Points in that season.

It is possible to win this award without winning any Pro Tour or Grand Prix events if the player finishes high enough in enough events.

Player of the Year Winners

Past Player of the Year Winners
Year	Winner
1996	Template:Flagicon SWE Olle Råde

1996–97	Template:Flagicon CAN Paul McCabe

1997–98	Template:Flagicon USA Jon Finkel

1998–99	Template:Flagicon DEU Kai Budde

1999–00	Template:Flagicon USA Bob Maher, Jr.

2000–01	Template:Flagicon DEU Kai Budde

2001–02	Template:Flagicon DEU Kai Budde

2002–03	Template:Flagicon DEU Kai Budde

2003–04	Template:Flagicon FRA Gabriel Nassif

2005	Template:Flagicon JPN Kenji Tsumura

2006	Template:Flagicon JPN Shota Yasooka

2007	Template:Flagicon JPN Tomoharu Saito

2008	Template:Flagicon JPN Shuhei Nakamura

2009	Template:Flagicon JPN Yuuya Watanabe

2010	Template:Flagicon USA Brad Nelson

2011	Template:Flagicon USA Owen Turtenwald

2012	Template:Flagicon JPN Yuuya Watanabe*

2012–13	Template:Flagicon USA Josh Utter-Leyton

2013–14	Template:Flagicon FRA Jérémy Dezani

2014–15	Template:Flagicon USA Mike Sigrist

2015–16	Template:Flagicon USA Owen Turtenwald

2016–17	Template:Flagicon BRA Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
* Watanabe won the Magic Players Championship

Kai Budde is the player who has won the most Player of the Year titles, with four.
- Two other players have won the title more than once: Yuuya Watanabe and Owen Turtenwald.
Kai Budde and Yuuya Watanabe are also the only players to have won Worlds/Players Championship and Player of the Year in the same year.
- Watanabe's record is a bit different from that of Budde's. The 2012 season was the only year during which the Player of the Year was not decided by Pro Points; instead, the winner of the 2012 Players Championship was considered the Player of the Year. However, Yuuya was also the one with the most Pro Points for the 2011–12 season,^[1] so he would have been the 2012 Player of the Year even with the old system.
No player has won Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year in the same year.
- Randy Buehler was the closest to achieving this feat when he finished second in the 1997–98 Player of the Year race.^[2]
In 2010, Brad Nelson and Guillaume Matignon tied in the Player of the Year race, forcing a playoff at the next Pro Tour, where Brad Nelson won.^[3]