Mark Mercuri finished off a great season with runner up in the 1999 Brownlow Medal with 22 votes. Shane Crawford won the Medal with 28 votes. Mark Mercuri is the hot favourite to win the Crichton Medal for the Essendon Best and Fairest this season, a sell out event to be held at Crown next week.

The final leaderboard for the Bombers in the 1999 Brownlow Medal was:
Mark Mercuri - 22
Matthew Lloyd - 9
Michael Long - 9
Barry Young - 7
Dustin Fletcher - 6
Steve Alessio - 5
Sean Wellman - 5
Joe Misiti - 5
Dean Rioli - 5
Blake Caracella - 4
Andrew Ukovic - 3
Mark Fraser - 2
Justin Blumfield - 2
Gary Moorcroft - 2
Dean Solomon - 2
Michael Prior - 2
Dean Wallis - 1

Essendon had the second highest amount of votes overall, just behind the Brisbane Lions.