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Winner Takes All

By Bill Barnwell, Football Outsiders

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Trying to handicap the MVP race? Well, virtually every top vote-getter since the 1982 strike season has shared three key attributes. Let's go through them one-by-one and eliminate any of this year's leading candidates who come up lacking. Last man standing gets the goods. YOU GOTTA BE A WINNER Only three of the 27 MVPs since 1982 didn't win a division title. One of this trio—Marshall Faulk in 2000—lost the division on a tiebreaker. The other two—Barry Sanders in 1997 and S ...

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