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Eric Walden

Salt Lake Tribune 2022
Ballots cast
6
Seasons
1
2022
Mean similarity
0.73
field 0.77 (-0.03)
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
2022 Defensive Player of the Year — ranked Rudy Gobert, then Mikal Bridges, then Giannis Antetokounmpo, similarity 0.39. The award went to Marcus Smart, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

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 J.B. Bickerstaff
0.89
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Mikal Bridges,
  3. 3 Giannis Antetokounmpo
0.39
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Dejounte Murray,
  2. 2 Ja Morant,
  3. 3 Desmond Bane
0.56
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Nikola Jokic,
  2. 2 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  3. 3 Joel Embiid,
  4. 4 Devin Booker,
  5. 5 Luka Doncic
0.90
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Evan Mobley,
  2. 2 Scottie Barnes,
  3. 3 Cade Cunningham
0.67

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