The winner was selected by a vote of the league's head coaches.
[1] Twenty-three of the winners have been guards, 30 have been forwards, and only four have been centers.
There have been two players—Jack McCloskey and Vincent Askew—who were two time recipients of the award.
Since then the Quad City Thunder have had the most players to win the award with five.
The Montana Golden Nuggets and the Yakima/Yakama Sun Kings are the only teams to have one of their players win the award for three seasons in a row.