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Eric Smith

TSN 1050/Sportsnet 590 The Fan 2015–2016
Ballots cast
5
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.75
field 0.77 (-0.02)
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 Coach of the Year — ranked Steve Kerr, then Mike Budenholzer, then Gregg Popovich, similarity 0.56.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 CJ McCollum,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Stephen Curry
0.61
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard,
  4. 4 Russell Westbrook,
  5. 5 Chris Paul
0.86

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Jamal Crawford,
  3. 3 Isaiah Thomas
0.83
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Steve Kerr,
  2. 2 Mike Budenholzer,
  3. 3 Gregg Popovich
0.56
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Andrew Wiggins,
  2. 2 Nikola Mirotic,
  3. 3 Elfrid Payton
0.89

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