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Eddie Sefko

Dallas Morning News 2015–2018
Ballots cast
22
Seasons
4
2015–2018
Mean similarity
0.72
field 0.77 (-0.05)
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
2017 Coach of the Year — ranked Scott Brooks, then Mike D'Antoni, then Steve Kerr, similarity 0.28.

Every ballot

2018

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Eric Gordon,
  3. 3 J.J. Barea
0.89
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Dwane Casey,
  2. 2 Terry Stotts,
  3. 3 Mike D'Antoni
0.61
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Robert Covington
0.61
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Victor Oladipo,
  2. 2 Clint Capela,
  3. 3 DeMar DeRozan
0.89
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis,
  4. 4 DeMar DeRozan,
  5. 5 Kevin Durant
0.87
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Ben Simmons,
  2. 2 Donovan Mitchell,
  3. 3 Dennis Smith Jr.
0.89

2017

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Eric Gordon,
  2. 2 Jamal Crawford,
  3. 3 Lou Williams
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Scott Brooks,
  2. 2 Mike D'Antoni,
  3. 3 Steve Kerr
0.28
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.50
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Nikola Jokic,
  2. 2 Devin Booker,
  3. 3 Harrison Barnes
0.28
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 Russell Westbrook,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Isaiah Thomas
0.80
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Malcolm Brogdon,
  2. 2 Dario Saric,
  3. 3 Yogi Ferrell
0.89

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Jamal Crawford,
  2. 2 Ryan Anderson,
  3. 3 Andre Iguodala
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Dwane Casey,
  2. 2 Terry Stotts,
  3. 3 Gregg Popovich
0.39
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Kyle Lowry
0.89
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Chris Paul
0.89
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Emmanuel Mudiay
0.89

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Jamal Crawford,
  3. 3 Tristan Thompson
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike Budenholzer,
  2. 2 Steve Kerr,
  3. 3 Doc Rivers
0.89
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Anthony Davis,
  3. 3 DeAndre Jordan
0.72
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jimmy Butler,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Enes Kanter
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 James Harden,
  4. 4 Blake Griffin,
  5. 5 Russell Westbrook
0.81

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