My Ballot For Major League Pickleball 2025 Season Ending Awards
The post My Ballot For Major League Pickleball 2025 Season Ending Awards appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Jorja Johnson is my 2025 Major League Pickleball Most Valuable Player. MLP We have come to the end of the regular season of Major League Pickleball’s 2025 slate, and like any good professional league they’re going to hand out Season Ending awards. I had the opportunity (as a member of the “pickleball media”) to help identify the nominees for the various awards a few weeks’ back, and this week the league released the awards for fan voting. Votes are due back by 8/14/25: go to this link to open the ballot. One vote per email address. I’ll run through each award, name the nominees, list who I thought should have been nominated, then discuss my vote. Critical information for the voting includes the Player Season Stats data at majorleaguepickleball.co and Erik Tice’s Public MLP XLS which has some per-event breakdowns and other data, and PickleKey, a relatively new resource that has some breakdown data on MLP players. I’ll name both a male and female in each category, even though the ballot only takes one name for each major award. Premier League Most Valuable Player Official Nominees: Anna Bright, Jorja Johnson, JW Johnson, Hayden Patriquin, Gabe Tardio, Anna Leigh Waters. My Nominees: these were the same six nominees I listed a few weeks back. My Vote: Jorja Johnson, easily. She led the league in both W/L record (51-7) and in points won (an astounding 70.24%). Dallas was stream-rolling through the league until the STL MLP event and finished 2nd in the league. She took a major step forward this year and it’s just a matter of time before that presents out on tour as well. My male vote would go to Hayden Patriquin, who nearly went undefeated with partner Tardio in gender doubles for the season and who dominated in Mixed…