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Originally Posted by blankall
I think you are downplaying what Celebrini is doing. The team around him is awful. An 18 year old kid, a few months post-draft, to lead a team in scoring is pretty impressive.
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Celebrini is obviously living up to first overall status, but leading a bad team in scoring is exactly what a good 1OA should do. Someone has to score. If he was a near PPG player for a contender, that would be more impressive.
The ROTY award should, simply put, go to the player who had the best rookie season. That, to me, has always meant the guy who contributed the most, in totality, to his team's success. That doesn't require the team to be a world beater, but it usually does mean that a team that has a lot of success that's directly traceable to a rookie's performance, as is the case with Wolf and Hutson, means that player had a better season than a guy who played really well and scored a lot for a team in the basement of the standings.
This isn't a "you have to make the playoffs to win the Hart" argument exactly, but team success does matter when you're the guy who's primarily responsible for that team having the success they've had.