Sir Andy Murray 2025 Player of the Month and Season Awards - overview thread

mdewey · Junior player

RE: Sir Andy Murray 2025 Player of the Month and Season Awards - overview thread

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

mdewey wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
I realise I said I wouldnt fixate on voting numbers this year, and I won't. But the first two months have seen a dramatic drop off

Jan with 46 and Feb with 53, saw 99 votes across the first two months of 2024

In 2025 we had 37 in Jan and 40 in Feb, a total of 77.

That is a 22-23% drop from last year.

I think the lack of new members plays a big part; it may also be down to the women players not doing amazing things so far this year, not sure if Indy has a view on that after his raising it last month?

I wonder also if people have become a little bored with this PoM process? Not much I can do about it other than carry on and hope British results reinvigorate it. The alternative is to stop it and that wouldnt make any real sense in the long run. I could change the format, but chose to make it shorter and sacrifice a few votes as a result, so am happy with that situation.

But any thoughts welcomed
Can you expand on the statement about new members not being allowed to join please? I had not heard of that.

Sorry, probably wrong word used - not able to join. Someone reported we hadn't had a single new member in around 6 months or certainly a long time - and that it might be a technical problem with the site. But it doesnt appear to be fixed and I suspect isnt someone knows how to fix?

Sheddie may have an idea, I think was The Addict or Indiana who pointed it out

the addict · Tennis legend

Someone else pointed it out initially, and I check to see if it has been fixed every now and again. It's been several months now.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Someone else pointed it out initially, and I check to see if it has been fixed every now and again. It's been several months now.

Yeah, last member joining was November 11th it looks like , so 4 months. Most new members sign up and then float away quite quickly; some seem to sign up and stay as just a reader of posts in the background, and some get involved. There was always a regular list of people each month and, in terms of this, I suspect a few joined in and voted sometimes. You cant tell - whether it deflated the numbers, I have no idea, but it feels like maybe a few each month may have been missed, probably not too many.

Lambda · ATP qualifying

As the host's website and pricing page hasn't changed in 10 years it doesn't give me a great deal of confidence there is anyone working on the forum software to fix it.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
As the host's website and pricing page hasn't changed in 10 years it doesn't give me a great deal of confidence there is anyone working on the forum software to fix it.

Its sort of amazing the forum actually keeps going - Ive often thought is there any hosting body actually alive out there!

mdewey · Junior player

JonH comes home wrote:
the addict wrote:
Someone else pointed it out initially, and I check to see if it has been fixed every now and again. It's been several months now.
Yeah, last member joining was November 11th it looks like , so 4 months. Most new members sign up and then float away quite quickly; some seem to sign up and stay as just a reader of posts in the background, and some get involved. There was always a regular list of people each month and, in terms of this, I suspect a few joined in and voted sometimes. You cant tell - whether it deflated the numbers, I have no idea, but it feels like maybe a few each month may have been missed, probably not too many.

Maybe like me they never log in except to vote on one of the polls and, very occasionally, make some other comment.

Thanks for the clarification and thanks to all the others who chipped in with information.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

mdewey wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
the addict wrote:
Someone else pointed it out initially, and I check to see if it has been fixed every now and again. It's been several months now.
Yeah, last member joining was November 11th it looks like , so 4 months. Most new members sign up and then float away quite quickly; some seem to sign up and stay as just a reader of posts in the background, and some get involved. There was always a regular list of people each month and, in terms of this, I suspect a few joined in and voted sometimes. You cant tell - whether it deflated the numbers, I have no idea, but it feels like maybe a few each month may have been missed, probably not too many.
Maybe like me they never log in except to vote on one of the polls and, very occasionally, make some other comment.

Thanks for the clarification and thanks to all the others who chipped in with information.

cool - well thank you for taking part and supporting the polls! Loads more to come !