Dane Rampe scored the most decisive win in the Bob Skilton Medal of the modern era.

Since the 0-10 voting system presently used to determine the Sydney Swans Club Champion was introduced in 2002, Rampe’s 120-vote margin over George Hewett in 2019 is the biggest – surpassing Josh Kennedy’s 112-vote win in 2012.

The Skilton Medal,  Sydney’s most prestigious individual award, is decided each year by five members of the senior coaching panel who independently rate each player’s performance from 0-10 after every game.

This year’s judges were senior coach John Longmire and assistants Brett Kirk, Dean Cox, Tadhg Kennelly and Steve Johnson.

It was the 12^th year of a five-man panel, after four judges filled this role in the first six years of the 0-10 voting system from 2002-07. Prior to the system being adopted in 2002, voting members rated each player 0-5 in each game.

In 2019, there were 22 occasions when a player polled 40 votes or more.

But what was rated by the coaching panel as the best individual effort of 2019?

Here, counting down the top 10 performances of the year, we begin with Isaac Heeney in Round 3: 

10^th Isaac Heeney – 43 votes, Round 3 v Carlton at Marvel Stadium.

The Swans flew to Melbourne desperately needing a win after losses to the Western Bulldogs and Adelaide to open the season. In his fifth season and his 83^rd game, 22-year-old Heeney produced a masterclass with 26 disposals and four goals – the second-biggest haul of his career in front of the big sticks and his best since 2016. The Swans led by 18 points at halftime but had lost Will Hayward to a broken jaw. Heeney kicked three of his side’s four goals in the second half, including the clincher, as the time clock reached 25 minutes in the final stanza. He also took three contested marks and what would be a season-high 14 contested possessions, and picked up the maximum 10 votes from the coaches and three Brownlow Medal votes.