The Tigers are a realistic chance to produce a consecutive winner for the first time in club history, with Dustin Martin roaring into late contention. The team's 18 victories will produce a swag of three-vote winners, with Martin, Trent Cotchin, Jack Riewoldt and the ineligible Josh Caddy to be prolific.

Best chance: Dustin Martin
We've got him polling 25, which is 11 short of what he racked up in 2017 to win it but could still be enough. He'll bookend his season with a strong start and then thunder home with a trio of potential three-vote games after the bye. He'll go quiet mid-season around the time he missed a game with a calf injury, but expect to see him rack them up from round 16 onwards.

Fast starter: Trent Cotchin
Martin will figure in the early votes, but so will the skipper. His best form came early in the season with his strongest performance against Collingwood (29 possessions, 18 contested) in round six.

One-vote wonder: Reece Conca
Tackled hard and won plenty of the ball in the Tigers' easy round four win over Brisbane, which might be enough to earn him his fourth career vote.