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Ben Golliver

Greatest of All Talk 2026Sports Illustrated 2017–2018
Ballots cast
19
Seasons
3
2017–2026
Mean similarity
0.76
field 0.77 (-0.01)
No-overlap ballots
0
shared no name with the top

Similarity is rank-biased overlap against each award's final order of finish — 1.00 is the consensus exactly, 0.00 shares no name with it. It measures how unusual a ballot was, not whether it was right: if the panel gets a season wrong, the voter who got it right scores as the outlier.

Least conventional ballot
2018 Coach of the Year — ranked Brett Brown, then Dwane Casey, then Brad Stevens, similarity 0.39.

Every ballot

2026

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Keldon Johnson,
  2. 2 Jaime Jaquez Jr.,
  3. 3 Naz Reid
0.89
Clutch Player of the Year
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Jalen Brunson,
  3. 3 Anthony Edwards
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Joe Mazzulla,
  2. 2 Mitch Johnson,
  3. 3 J.B. Bickerstaff
0.83
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Victor Wembanyama,
  2. 2 Chet Holmgren,
  3. 3 Ausar Thompson
1.00
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jalen Duren,
  2. 2 Deni Avdija,
  3. 3 Nickeil Alexander-Walker
0.50
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Nikola Jokic,
  3. 3 Victor Wembanyama,
  4. 4 Cade Cunningham,
  5. 5 Luka Doncic
0.95
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Cooper Flagg,
  2. 2 Kon Knueppel,
  3. 3 VJ Edgecombe
1.00

2018

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Fred VanVleet,
  3. 3 Eric Gordon
0.83
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Brett Brown,
  2. 2 Dwane Casey,
  3. 3 Brad Stevens
0.39
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Joel Embiid,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis
1.00
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Victor Oladipo,
  2. 2 Jaylen Brown,
  3. 3 Jamal Murray
0.61
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis,
  4. 4 Damian Lillard,
  5. 5 Kevin Durant
0.96
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Ben Simmons,
  2. 2 Donovan Mitchell,
  3. 3 Jayson Tatum
1.00

2017

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Andre Iguodala,
  2. 2 Lou Williams,
  3. 3 Eric Gordon
0.50
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike D'Antoni,
  2. 2 Gregg Popovich,
  3. 3 Scott Brooks
0.72
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Andre Roberson
0.56
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Isaiah Thomas
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 Russell Westbrook,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Stephen Curry
0.76
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Joel Embiid,
  2. 2 Malcolm Brogdon,
  3. 3 Dario Saric
0.50

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