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Lisa Shen Yang

Tencent 2017–2018
Ballots cast
12
Seasons
2
2017–2018
Mean similarity
0.82
field 0.77 (+0.05)
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
2017 Sixth Man of the Year — ranked Andre Iguodala, then Eric Gordon, then Greg Monroe, similarity 0.56.

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 Dwane Casey,
  2. 2 Quin Snyder,
  3. 3 Brad Stevens
1.00
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 Steven Adams,
  3. 3 Andre Drummond
0.61
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis,
  4. 4 Damian Lillard,
  5. 5 Joel Embiid
0.96
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 Greg Monroe
0.56
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike D'Antoni,
  2. 2 Gregg Popovich,
  3. 3 Steve Kerr
0.72
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.83
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Bradley Beal
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Russell Westbrook,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Stephen Curry,
  4. 4 Kawhi Leonard,
  5. 5 LeBron James
0.84
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Malcolm Brogdon,
  2. 2 Joel Embiid,
  3. 3 Willy Hernangomez
0.72

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