Jack Dyer Medal
The Jack Dyer Medal is an Australian rules football award given each season to the player or players adjudged best and fairest for the Richmond Football Club.
The award is now named in honour of Jack Dyer, a champion ruckman who won the award five times from 1937 to 1946. He was one of the inaugural "Legends" inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Other multiple winners have been Kevin Bartlett ; Wayne Campbell and dual Brownlow Medallist Roy Wright ; Ron Branton, Neville Crowe, Geoff Raines, Brownlow Medallist Bill Morris, and Trent Cotchin. Basil McCormack, Jack Titus, Leo Merrett, Des Rowe, Dave Cuzens, Royce Hart, Maurice Rioli, Dale Weightman, Matthew Knights, Tony Free, Joel Bowden, Brett Deledio, Dustin Martin, and most recently Jack Riewoldt have all won the award twice.
Bill Morris, Roy Wright, Ian Stewart, Trent Cotchin and Dustin Martin all won the best and fairest in the same years that they won their Brownlow Medals at Richmond, while Stan Judkins, Brownlow Medallist in 1930, never won the club's award.
The voting system as of the 2017 AFL season, consists of each player receiving a ranking from zero to five after each match by the coaching panel.
In November 2019 it was announced that research into the history of the award has discovered that many of the awards before 1937 were not actually presented at the time, but were incorrectly retrospectively added in 1988 and 1991 without evidence. Controversially, this resulted in Jack Dyer's tally of six medals being reduced to five, and several other players having their tallies removed completely
Recipients
| Season | Recipient | Ref. |
| 1908 to 1926 | ||
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| 2010 | ^ | |
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| 2012 | +^ | |
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| 2014 | ^ | |
| 2015 | ^ | |
| 2016 | ^ | |
| 2017 | +^ | |
| 2018 | ^ | |
| 2019 | ^ |
Multiple winners
| Player | Medals | Seasons |
| 5 | 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946 | |
| 5 | 1967, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1977 | |
| 4 | 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002 | |
| 4 | 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957 | |
| 3 | 1960, 1961, 1962 | |
| ^ | 3 | 2011, 2012, 2014 |
| 3 | 1963, 1964, 1966 | |
| 3 | 1945, 1948, 1950 | |
| 3 | 1978, 1980, 1981 | |
| 2 | 2004, 2005 | |
| 2 | 1958, 1959 | |
| 2 | 2008, 2009 | |
| ^ | 2 | 2016, 2017 |
| 2 | 1989, 1993 | |
| 2 | 1969, 1972 | |
| 2 | 1990, 1992 | |
| 2 | 1927, 1928 | |
| 2 | 1942, 1944 | |
| ^ | 2 | 2010, 2018 |
| 2 | 1982, 1983 | |
| 2 | 1951, 1955 | |
| 2 | 1929, 1941 | |
| 2 | 1986, 1987 |
Removed winners
Following a 19 year investigation undertaken by members of the Historical Committee, no evidence was found to have any winner in the following seasons. It is thought that the awards were to each of the following players retrospectively added in 1988 and 1991 in error.| Season | Recipient |
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