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Craig Ackerman

Sportstalk 790 AM 2015–2016
Ballots cast
5
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.84
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
2015 Most Valuable Player — ranked James Harden, then Stephen Curry, then LeBron James, then Anthony Davis, then Kawhi Leonard, similarity 0.71.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 CJ McCollum,
  2. 2 Kemba Walker,
  3. 3 Jae Crowder
0.89
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 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Isaiah Thomas,
  3. 3 Corey Brewer
0.89
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jimmy Butler,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Draymond Green
0.83
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 Stephen Curry,
  3. 3 LeBron James,
  4. 4 Anthony Davis,
  5. 5 Kawhi Leonard
0.71

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