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Voter profile

Mike Tirico

ESPN 2015–2016
Ballots cast
12
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.77
field 0.77 (+0.00)
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
2015 Coach of the Year — ranked Brad Stevens, then Mike Budenholzer, then Steve Kerr, similarity 0.39.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Enes Kanter,
  2. 2 Andre Iguodala,
  3. 3 Jamal Crawford
0.50
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Steve Kerr,
  2. 2 Terry Stotts,
  3. 3 Steve Clifford
0.89
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Hassan Whiteside
0.67
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 CJ McCollum,
  2. 2 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  3. 3 Kemba Walker
0.83
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard,
  4. 4 Kevin Durant,
  5. 5 Draymond Green
0.81
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Nikola Jokic
1.00

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Isaiah Thomas,
  3. 3 Jamal Crawford
1.00
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Brad Stevens,
  2. 2 Mike Budenholzer,
  3. 3 Steve Kerr
0.39
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 DeAndre Jordan,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Draymond Green
0.50
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 LeBron James,
  4. 4 Russell Westbrook,
  5. 5 Anthony Davis
1.00
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Nikola Mirotic,
  2. 2 Andrew Wiggins,
  3. 3 Nerlens Noel
0.67

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