History
As with most individual awards in team sports, the Norm Smith Medal is usually awarded to a player on the winning side. Only four players have won the award in losing sides: Maurice Rioli in 1982, Gary Ablett, Sr. in 1989, Nathan Buckley in 2002 and Chris Judd in 2005. It is notable that Ablett, Buckley and Judd won their medals in very close Grand Finals, whereas Rioli won his in the 1982 Grand Final, despite his team being convincingly beaten by Carlton.Chris Judd is the only player to go on and play in a winning premiership team(West Coast 2006) after his Norm Smith medal in 2005 in a losing team. Buckley Rioli and Ablett did not play in a VFL/AFL premiership team. Lenny Hayes is the only player to win the Norm Smith in a drawn Grand Final, in 2010.
Gary Ayres and Andrew McLeod are the only players to have won the medal twice. In the 1997 and 1998 grand finals McLeod won consecutive Norm Smith Medals, and to date remains the only man ever to achieve this feat. The first winner of the medal, Wayne Harmes, was Norm Smith's nephew.
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