While I generally think these threads popularity contests I suppose I may as well post my opinion. As both a player and a captain I&#039;m of the opinion that wins are the only relevant statistics. If you don&#039;t win you&#039;re not an MVP...if you don&#039;t win you&#039;re not a top captain, and so on.<br /><br />[b]Captain of the year: Hatred[/b]<br />Hatred wins this award for gambling at #2 and pulling it off. I don&#039;t personally think Hate is a good captain but I think his performance and decision making this year give him and edge over me for this award. Captaining = picking well, game planning well and practicing. Hate did all of those things better than anyone else and his record reflects it.<br /><br />[b]MVP: Chaindude[/b] It&#039;s easily Chaindude. 65 caps is unprecedented. I know that 5/9 of our games went 3 rounds but the fact that we only lost 1 game and he had 2.3 caps a round (from the largest sample league wide) while breaking every flag record (by a wide margin) is really incredible. All of this while being relatively inactive for the last year or two. That&#039;s enough for me to give the award to Chain.<br /><br />[b]Rookie of the Year: Delusion[/b] Guys, Blake Griffin wasn&#039;t a Rookie when he won Rookie of the Year. You can&#039;t just merge this with &quot;guy who didn&#039;t live up to his potential&quot; or &quot;guy who had a good season after a few bad ones&quot;. There is a specific level of maturity and skill that comes with having a successful season in one&#039;s first go at the highest levels of competition. With that said I think there was only 1 rookie this season and I had the pleasure of playing against him on a very unforgiving map for a rookies. Delusion gets the award not only because he&#039;s the only true rookie but also because he played like a pro in our ZD02 game.<br /><br />[b]Most Improved Award: Mantis[/b]<br />Yeah Legion had a BOSS year. He was a true IDL 3rd for the first time in his career and it showed with KnF snagging a playoff berth. If White had been more active this team might have won their Conference. Truly impressive. However, Mantis carried his team when their 1st round pick vanished, played every position at a high level and only whined a fraction of what he could have given the circumstances. In addition to all of that his team won their Conference and will hold home-field throughout the playoffs.&nbsp; 