Top bests of every months.
UNITED’S PLAYERS OF THE MONTH IN 2019/20
Start!
August – 1. Daniel James (61%), 2. Wan-Bissaka (36%), 3. Maguire (3%)
September – 1. Scott McTominay (40%), 2. Shaw (35%), 3. Lindelof (25%)
October – 1. Scott McTominay (48%), 2. Rashford (39%), 3. James (13%)
November – 1. Marcus Rashford (53%), 2. Williams (37%), 3. Greenwood (10%)
December – Marcus Rashford, ???
McT & Rashford out
January – 1. Fred (51%), 2. Williams (23%), 3. Maguire (14%), 4. Matic (11%)
Bruno
February – 1. Bruno Fernandes (80%), 2. Martial (14%), 3. Shaw (6%)
March – 1. Bruno Fernandes, 2. Ighalo/Fred/Maguire
Restart
June – Bruno Fernandes, ???
July – 1. Mason Greenwood (46%), 2. Martial (28%), 3. Bruno (26%)
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Couldn't find Dec nor June (the official website is such a mess).
March also doesn't show the percentage.
So Martial is only a nominee twice, possibly four times (including Dec and June), and not even close to be our best player (except July but the percentage is ridiculously low) in those months. Posters generally in the caf during those times say the same thing, take a trip to the past threads and past posts to see.
Therefore choosing Martial as poty is recency bias.
Suddenly because his form in this late stage is awesome, it gave better "lights" to his earlier performances. Suddenly he's our most important player despite Ole kept on subbing him out even when we're chasing games earlier games, including the earliest games of this restart. Only at the later games near the league ends, Ole relied on Martial to save the day and he generally did.