The voting for the MLS Awards is a doomed exercise.
It starts with the clubs identifying which of their players they would like to put forward for each category. The longlists that come out of that are then voted on by three equally weighted groups: players, staff and media.
From those votes you get the finalists that were revealed earlier this week and then, announced category by category between today and December 4, the winners.
And every year sees fans of at least half the teams in the league air grievances over who does and does not appear among the finalists.