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Jim Owczarski

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2026
Ballots cast
7
Seasons
1
2026
Mean similarity
0.60
field 0.77 (-0.17)
No-overlap ballots
1
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
2026 Clutch Player of the Year — ranked Cade Cunningham, then Jalen Brunson, then Kevin Durant, similarity 0.00. The award went to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

2026

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Keldon Johnson,
  2. 2 Jaime Jaquez Jr.,
  3. 3 Tim Hardaway Jr.
1.00
Clutch Player of the Year
  1. 1 Cade Cunningham,
  2. 2 Jalen Brunson,
  3. 3 Kevin Durant
0.00
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mitch Johnson,
  2. 2 J.B. Bickerstaff,
  3. 3 Joe Mazzulla
0.50
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Victor Wembanyama,
  2. 2 Chet Holmgren,
  3. 3 Ausar Thompson
1.00
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Ryan Rollins,
  2. 2 Nickeil Alexander-Walker,
  3. 3 Neemias Queta
0.28
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,
  2. 2 Cade Cunningham,
  3. 3 Victor Wembanyama,
  4. 4 Nikola Jokic,
  5. 5 Jaylen Brown
0.74
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Kon Knueppel,
  2. 2 Cooper Flagg,
  3. 3 VJ Edgecombe
0.67

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