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Gonna give you my tuppence on MVP, you usually get two, most valuable player in the league, loosely defined as the player without whom their team would not be much cop, scores most, assists most, defends most. Usually in American sports you'll have an award for each of those catergories and then an overall, this is usually the player that means the most to their team, without whom the team would struggle to be as good/competitive as they are, and who you could draft into any team and they would be better instantly. Then you've got the MVP of a game, tournament which is just the player who has done the most in helping the team to win said game or tournament, whether it's goalie keeping games close by saving anything and everything, player scoring lots of winning goals, or someone providing lots of assists.
Voting for an MVP is usually stat based, so arguments can be made for and against with some statistical reference to back up your point of view, otherwise it becomes fairly subjective, though it still does in the states even with the stats to back them up.
So what I'm trying to say in a kinda long winded way is if you have an MVP award the player who should win it should be the one that you believe for that season every team would want to have playing for them, because they give them best chance of winning.
Hope that makes sense, I'll go back to lurking in the football thread and eating copious amounts of empanada's.
Ps Brendan email coming your way..