TONIGHT is the AFL’s night of nights – the 2019 Brownlow Medal count.

Ollie Wines was Port Adelaide’s best performed player last season, collecting 14 votes to finish in a tie for 19^th along with Gary Ablett, Joel Selwood (both Geelong) and Jack Macrae (Western Bulldogs).

It’s been 22 years since Brayden Lyle received the club’s first Brownlow votes.

Then vice-captain Lyle received three votes for his 35 disposals and goal in a 33-point loss to Essendon in Round 2, 1997.

Lyle had returned to his boyhood club Port Adelaide after initially being drafted by West Coast.

After five Brownlow votes in 26 games with the Eagles, he added another 15 votes in 90 games for the Power.

Lyle’s three votes in round 2, 1997, were the first of the Port Adelaide Football Club’s now 1485 Brownlow votes.

In 2017, Travis Boak became the first player to top 100 Brownlow votes for the club, and leads all comers with 102 career votes from 264 AFL games.

Boak also holds the record of having led Port Adelaide’s yearly vote figure on four occasions, sharing the honour with former midfielder Josh Francou.

Others to lead the votes in multiple years include Gavin Wanganeen, who led the Power’s count on three occasions, and twice leaders Shaun Burgoyne, former captain Warren Tredrea and current stars Robbie Gray and Ollie Wines.

Francou boasts the highest finish on a Brownlow Medal leaderboard when he was second to Brisbane’s Simon Black (25 votes) in 2002, while Wanganeen was closest to a medal win for Port Adelaide – to add to his 1993 Brownlow success with Essendon - when he finished one vote behind the joint winners in 2003.

He polled 21 votes to finish equal fourth with Hawthorn’s Shane Crawford behind a three-way tie between Adelaide’s Mark Riccuito, Collingwood’s Nathan Buckley and Sydney’s Adam Goodes.

Boak, Robbie Gray and Tredrea have each polled three votes in 16 games, with Francou and Peter Burgoyne the next best with eleven three-vote games.