In a sign of the team performance that got the Cats over the line against Essendon, three Cats shared the top votes in the AFLCA award.

Chris Scott and James Hird awarded Steve Johnson, Steven Motlop and Mathew Stokes 8 votes. The scoring system sees each coach award 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 votes to players from either side. Johnson, Motlop and Stokes each got with 5, 4 or 3 votes from both coaches.     

The remaining votes went to Heath Hocking, David Zaharakis and Jake Carlisle who received 3, 2,  and 1 votes respectively.

Patrick Dangefield and Jobe Watson lead the award on 35 votes each.

2013 AFLCA Award Cats leaderboard:
Taylor 23
Johnson 21
Selwood 20
Motlop 20
Stokes 18
Enright 14
Kelly 9
Mackie 7
Chapman 7
T Hunt 5
Christensen 5
Lonergan 1
Bartel 1