Player of the Year

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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 Olle Råde
1996–97 Template:Flagicon Paul McCabe
1997–98 Template:Flagicon Jon Finkel
1998–99 Template:Flagicon Kai Budde
1999–00 Template:Flagicon Bob Maher, Jr.
2000–01 Template:Flagicon Kai Budde
2001–02 Template:Flagicon Kai Budde
2002–03 Template:Flagicon Kai Budde
2003–04 Template:Flagicon Gabriel Nassif
2005 Template:Flagicon Kenji Tsumura
2006 Template:Flagicon Shota Yasooka
2007 Template:Flagicon Tomoharu Saito
2008 Template:Flagicon Shuhei Nakamura
2009 Template:Flagicon Yuuya Watanabe
2010 Template:Flagicon Brad Nelson
2011 Template:Flagicon Owen Turtenwald
2012 Template:Flagicon Yuuya Watanabe*
2012–13 Template:Flagicon Josh Utter-Leyton
2013–14 Template:Flagicon Jérémy Dezani
2014–15 Template:Flagicon Mike Sigrist
2015–16 Template:Flagicon Owen Turtenwald
2016–17 Template:Flagicon Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
* Watanabe won the Magic Players Championship

Trivia

  • Kai Budde is the player who has won the most Player of the Year titles, with four.
  • 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]

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