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Eric Nehm

The Athletic 2022–2025
Ballots cast
20
Seasons
3
2022–2025
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
2024 Most Improved Player — ranked Alperen Sengun, then Jalen Suggs, then Tyrese Maxey, similarity 0.22.

Every ballot

2025

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Payton Pritchard,
  2. 2 Malik Beasley,
  3. 3 Ty Jerome
1.00
Clutch Player of the Year
  1. 1 Nikola Jokic,
  2. 2 Jalen Brunson,
  3. 3 Stephen Curry
0.56
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Kenny Atkinson,
  2. 2 J.B. Bickerstaff,
  3. 3 Ime Udoka
1.00
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Dyson Daniels,
  2. 2 Evan Mobley,
  3. 3 Amen Thompson
0.56
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Dyson Daniels,
  2. 2 Ivica Zubac,
  3. 3 Christian Braun
0.89
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Nikola Jokic,
  3. 3 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  4. 4 Jayson Tatum,
  5. 5 Anthony Edwards
0.96
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Jaylen Wells,
  2. 2 Stephon Castle,
  3. 3 Zaccharie Risacher
0.50

2024

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Malik Monk,
  2. 2 Bobby Portis,
  3. 3 Naz Reid
0.50
Clutch Player of the Year
  1. 1 DeMar Derozan,
  2. 2 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  3. 3 Nikola Jokic
0.39
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mark Daigneault,
  2. 2 Jamahl Mosley,
  3. 3 Joe Mazzulla
0.89
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Bam Adebayo,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis
0.72
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Alperen Sengun,
  2. 2 Jalen Suggs,
  3. 3 Tyrese Maxey
0.22
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Nikola Jokic,
  2. 2 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  3. 3 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  4. 4 Luka Doncic,
  5. 5 Jayson Tatum
0.79
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Victor Wembanyama,
  2. 2 Chet Holmgren,
  3. 3 Brandon Miller
1.00

2022

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Tyler Herro,
  2. 2 Kevin Love,
  3. 3 Cameron Johnson
1.00
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Monty Williams,
  2. 2 Taylor Jenkins,
  3. 3 Erik Spoelstra
1.00
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Bam Adebayo,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Marcus Smart
0.22
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Ja Morant,
  2. 2 Darius Garland,
  3. 3 Robert Williams III
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Nikola Jokic,
  2. 2 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  3. 3 Joel Embiid,
  4. 4 Jayson Tatum,
  5. 5 Devin Booker
0.81
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Evan Mobley,
  2. 2 Scottie Barnes,
  3. 3 Cade Cunningham
0.67

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