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Jerry Zgoda

Minneapolis Star Tribune 2015–2018Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2017
Ballots cast
24
Seasons
4
2015–2018
Mean similarity
0.78
field 0.77 (+0.01)
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 Coach of the Year — ranked Brett Brown, then Dwane Casey, then Quin Snyder, similarity 0.39.

Every ballot

2018

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Eric Gordon,
  3. 3 Will Barton
0.89
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Brett Brown,
  2. 2 Dwane Casey,
  3. 3 Quin Snyder
0.39
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Joel Embiid,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis
1.00
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Victor Oladipo,
  2. 2 Clint Capela,
  3. 3 Jaylen Brown
0.89
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis,
  4. 4 Kevin Durant,
  5. 5 Damian Lillard
0.91
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Ben Simmons,
  2. 2 Donovan Mitchell,
  3. 3 Jayson Tatum
1.00

2017

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Andre Iguodala,
  2. 2 Eric Gordon,
  3. 3 Enes Kanter
0.56
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike D'Antoni,
  2. 2 Brad Stevens,
  3. 3 Erik Spoelstra
0.72
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.50
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  2. 2 Bradley Beal,
  3. 3 Nikola Jokic
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Russell Westbrook,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 James Harden,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Isaiah Thomas
0.90
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Joel Embiid,
  2. 2 Malcolm Brogdon,
  3. 3 Dario Saric
0.50

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Jamal Crawford,
  2. 2 Enes Kanter,
  3. 3 Evan Turner
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Steve Kerr,
  2. 2 Steve Clifford,
  3. 3 Terry Stotts
0.72
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Hassan Whiteside
1.00
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  2. 2 Kemba Walker,
  3. 3 CJ McCollum
0.50
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 LeBron James,
  4. 4 Damian Lillard,
  5. 5 Russell Westbrook
0.91
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Devin Booker
0.89

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Isaiah Thomas,
  3. 3 Andre Iguodala
0.89
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike Budenholzer,
  2. 2 Steve Kerr,
  3. 3 Jason Kidd
1.00
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 DeAndre Jordan
0.67
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Anthony Davis,
  2. 2 Jimmy Butler,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.39
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Anthony Davis
0.93
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Andrew Wiggins,
  2. 2 Nikola Mirotic,
  3. 3 Nerlens Noel
1.00

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