[1] Nat Fyfe of the Fremantle Football Club won the medal by polling thirty-one votes during the 2015 AFL season.

Under previous rules, players were ineligible if found guilty at the AFL Tribunal of an offence with a base penalty equal to or greater than a one-match suspension, even if the player then avoided suspension by taking an early guilty plea after the Match Review Panel's findings.

[5] On 3 July 2015, the round 14 match between Adelaide and Geelong was cancelled following the death of Adelaide coach, Phil Walsh, resulting in players from those teams having one fewer game available to them to poll votes.

[6] Various commentators made proposals to remove this disadvantage, such as removing all round 14 votes from the count or awarding double votes for the return match between Adelaide and Geelong in round 23; but the AFL rejected all proposals, pointing out that the disadvantage to the players involved was no different from the case of players who had missed the chance to poll votes in previous Brownlow medals due to their participation in interstate matches.

[7] The missing game ended up having no impact on the medal, as the highest-polling player from those clubs (Adelaide's Patrick Dangerfield) was nine votes behind the winner.