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Marc Spears

The Undefeated 2016–2017Yahoo! Sports 2015
Ballots cast
18
Seasons
3
2015–2017
Mean similarity
0.78
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
2017 Most Improved Player — ranked Nikola Jokic, then Rudy Gobert, then Giannis Antetokounmpo, similarity 0.50.

Every ballot

2017

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Eric Gordon,
  2. 2 Zach Randolph,
  3. 3 Andre Iguodala
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike D'Antoni,
  2. 2 Brad Stevens,
  3. 3 Steve Kerr
0.61
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard
1.00
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Nikola Jokic,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Giannis Antetokounmpo
0.50
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 Russell Westbrook,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard,
  4. 4 Isaiah Thomas,
  5. 5 LeBron James
0.75
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 Andre Iguodala,
  3. 3 Enes Kanter
1.00
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Steve Kerr,
  2. 2 Brad Stevens,
  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 CJ McCollum,
  2. 2 Stephen Curry,
  3. 3 Giannis Antetokounmpo
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 Russell Westbrook,
  3. 3 Damian Lillard,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Kawhi Leonard
0.68
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Jahlil Okafor
0.89

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Isaiah Thomas,
  2. 2 Lou Williams,
  3. 3 Andre Iguodala
0.56
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 Jimmy Butler,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
1.00
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 LaMarcus Aldridge
0.89
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Andrew Wiggins,
  2. 2 Nikola Mirotic,
  3. 3 Elfrid Payton
0.89

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