What Makes an NFL MVP?

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Published: November 27, 2009

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... start to crop up all over the place, especially in article-submitted locales such as Bleacher Report.  But what constitutes an MVP?  How are arguments and favorites created?  What is the ultimate deciding factor?

In other sports it can be much easier to discern, baseball mostly excuses pitchers from MVP voting because of the Cy Young (from 1987 to now only one, Dennis Eckersley in 1992).  We can therefore look to the combination of the same four stats each year to p decide it, it is about how a player handles himself at the plate—defense and quality of player interaction don't weigh in heavily.  Basketball is similarly placed where an individual talent can be simply looked at statistically and probably determined without ever watching that fellow play.

Football is much tougher.  We know weight is given to offense before defense—though it is not impossible for a defensive player to win the award.  If things stand as th...

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