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Nate Taylor

Indianapolis Star 2016–2017
Ballots cast
9
Seasons
2
2016–2017
Mean similarity
0.68
field 0.77 (-0.09)
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 Coach of the Year — ranked Brad Stevens, then Quin Snyder, then Gregg Popovich, similarity 0.11. The award went to Mike D'Antoni, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

2017

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Eric Gordon,
  2. 2 Andre Iguodala,
  3. 3 Lou Williams
1.00
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Brad Stevens,
  2. 2 Quin Snyder,
  3. 3 Gregg Popovich
0.11
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 Nikola Jokic,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
1.00
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Stephen Curry
0.66
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Malcolm Brogdon,
  2. 2 Dario Saric,
  3. 3 Joel Embiid
1.00

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Will Barton,
  2. 2 Andre Iguodala,
  3. 3 Shaun Livingston
0.28
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Gregg Popovich,
  2. 2 Steve Kerr,
  3. 3 Luke Walton
0.39
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Nikola Jokic,
  3. 3 Kristaps Porzingis
0.83

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