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Dennis Neumann

ESPN 580 AM 2015–2016
Ballots cast
7
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.63
field 0.77 (-0.14)
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 Rookie of the Year — ranked Elfrid Payton, then Andrew Wiggins, then Nerlens Noel, similarity 0.39.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Jamal Crawford,
  2. 2 Will Barton,
  3. 3 Ryan Anderson
0.61
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Hassan Whiteside
0.67
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 CJ McCollum,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Isaiah Thomas
0.61
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Jahlil Okafor
0.89

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Steve Kerr,
  2. 2 Mike Budenholzer,
  3. 3 Brad Stevens
0.56
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 Stephen Curry,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Tim Duncan
0.69
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Elfrid Payton,
  2. 2 Andrew Wiggins,
  3. 3 Nerlens Noel
0.39

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