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Brian Sieman

The Beast 980 2016The Beast 980 AM FM 2015
Ballots cast
9
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.70
field 0.77 (-0.07)
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
2016 Coach of the Year — ranked Terry Stotts, then Steve Clifford, then Doc Rivers, similarity 0.28. The award went to Steve Kerr, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Jamal Crawford,
  2. 2 Ryan Anderson,
  3. 3 Enes Kanter
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Terry Stotts,
  2. 2 Steve Clifford,
  3. 3 Doc Rivers
0.28
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 DeAndre Jordan
0.89
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Chris Paul,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Draymond Green
0.80
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Devin Booker
0.89

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Jamal Crawford,
  2. 2 Isaiah Thomas,
  3. 3 Lou Williams
0.50
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike Budenholzer,
  2. 2 Steve Kerr,
  3. 3 Brad Stevens
0.89
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jimmy Butler,
  2. 2 Klay Thompson,
  3. 3 Hassan Whiteside
0.61
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Andrew Wiggins,
  2. 2 Elfrid Payton,
  3. 3 Nikola Mirotic
0.72

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