The way the voting system works -rewarding consistency as much as brilliance - makes it very hard to make the top 10 if you miss more than a couple of games. JPK snuck into 10th spot after playing 19 out of 22 games. Dawson (9th) played 20.
Rampe missed one game, while I believe the rest of the top 10 (Hewett, Parker, Papley, Mills, Heeney, Lloyd, Aliir) played all 22 games. In comparison, Jones played just 17 games. He was in the top 10 (at 10th) in the penultimate leader board (ie about 3/4 of the way through the season).
Reid's absence from the top 10 is more notable, given he also played every game for the season, as well as being a seasoned, senior player.
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