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Candace Buckner

Indianapolis Star 2015–2016
Ballots cast
9
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.69
field 0.77 (-0.08)
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 Klay Thompson, then Jimmy Butler, then DeMarcus Cousins, similarity 0.28.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Hassan Whiteside,
  3. 3 Draymond Green
0.83
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Kemba Walker,
  2. 2 CJ McCollum,
  3. 3 Jae Crowder
0.56
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Kevin Durant,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Draymond Green
0.84

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Jamal Crawford,
  3. 3 Isaiah Thomas
0.83
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Steve Kerr,
  2. 2 Mike Budenholzer,
  3. 3 Brad Stevens
0.56
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Tony Allen
0.56
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Klay Thompson,
  2. 2 Jimmy Butler,
  3. 3 DeMarcus Cousins
0.28
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 Anthony Davis,
  5. 5 LeBron James
0.88
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Andrew Wiggins,
  2. 2 Nikola Mirotic,
  3. 3 Elfrid Payton
0.89

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