A little man or the game's most physically imposing player?
That seems to be the choice as to who will take home the AFL's highest individual award on Monday night - the Brownlow Medal - given that apart from Brisbane's powerhouse forward Jonathan Brown, all the remaining favourites for this year's medal are some of the game's elite small players.
The outright favourite is Geelong midfielder Gary Ablett - who surprisingly stands 182cm but always looks much smaller on the field - and he will go into this year's count as the hottest favourite since Hawthorn's Shane Crawford in 1999, who duly saluted.
And two of the other leading contenders are the Kangaroos' 172cm pocket rocket Brent Harvey and Hawthorn's dynamic 179cm on-baller Sam Mitchell, a proven vote-winner having already won the VFL's equivalent of the Brownlow - the Liston Trophy - back in 2002.
Then there is Brown, the 195cm, 102kg powerhouse, who is aiming to become only the second player - after St Kilda's Tony Lockett in 1987 - to win the Coleman Medal (for the season's leading goalkicker) and Brownlow in the same season.
But history is against Brown.
The last player to win the Brownlow whose team did not make the finals, as was the case with the Lions this year, was Crawford eight years ago.
Since then midfielders from the leading teams have dominated the award, which all points to Ablett this season.
The son of arguably Geelong's greatest ever player - Gary Ablett senior - could well end this week with two honours his famous father never achieved - a Brownlow Medal and playing in a premiership team, given the Cats are hot favourites to beat Port Adelaide in next Saturday's AFL grand final.
Ablett played all 22 games this season and averaged 26 disposals per game as well as kicking 26 goals during the home and away season.
Constantly under the noses of the umpires, Ablett will have several opportunities to pick up the all-important three votes - with his best chances being in round six against Richmond, round 12 against Brisbane, round 14 against Essendon, round 15 against Collingwood, round 16 against the Bulldogs and round 17 against Fremantle.
But while Ablett appeared to be the stand-out player of the season in a team that finished three games clear on top of the home and away ladder - the overall brilliance of his team could work against him.
That is because there are plenty of players from within his own team to take votes away from Geelong's favourite son.
Remember the Cats had a record nine players in this year's All-Australian team and Ablett's fellow midfielders Jimmy Bartel and Joel Corey are also amongst the top 10 picks for this year's award.
And while the all-conquering Brisbane Lions - back in their triple premiership winning years of 2001-03 did supply Brownlow Medalists in Jason Akermanis (2001) and Simon Black (2002) - some of the great teams of recent history did not.
In fact the Essendon team of 2000 - of whom this year's Geelong team is widely compared to - did not have a player in the top six in that year's Brownlow voting, despite polling a record number of club votes by virtue of losing only one game for the season (the Cats this year lost four but only one after round five).
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