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Jim Spanarkel
YES Network 2016
Ballots cast
2
Seasons
1
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
2016 Defensive Player of the Year — ranked
Kawhi Leonard, then DeAndre Jordan, then LeBron James, similarity 0.61.
Every ballot
2016
| Award | Their ranking | Similarity |
|---|---|---|
| Defensive Player of the Year |
| 0.61 |
| Most Improved Player |
| 0.89 |
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