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Elliott Teaford

Southern California News Group 2018
Ballots cast
6
Seasons
1
2018
Mean similarity
0.82
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
2018 Most Improved Player — ranked Victor Oladipo, then Steven Adams, then Brandon Ingram, similarity 0.61.

Every ballot

2018

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Will Barton,
  3. 3 Eric Gordon
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Dwane Casey,
  2. 2 Quin Snyder,
  3. 3 Doc Rivers
0.89
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Anthony Davis,
  3. 3 Joel Embiid
0.83
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Victor Oladipo,
  2. 2 Steven Adams,
  3. 3 Brandon Ingram
0.61
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 Damian Lillard,
  5. 5 Giannis Antetokounmpo
0.84
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Ben Simmons,
  2. 2 Donovan Mitchell,
  3. 3 Jayson Tatum
1.00

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