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Bob Cooney

Philadelphia Daily News 2015
Ballots cast
3
Seasons
1
2015
Mean similarity
0.74
field 0.77 (-0.02)
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
2015 Most Improved Player — ranked Draymond Green, then Jimmy Butler, then Hassan Whiteside, similarity 0.56.

Every ballot

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 DeAndre Jordan,
  3. 3 Draymond Green
0.83
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Jimmy Butler,
  3. 3 Hassan Whiteside
0.56
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 Chris Paul,
  5. 5 LeBron James
0.84

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