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Sam Smith

Bulls.com 2015–2016
Ballots cast
12
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.63
field 0.77 (-0.13)
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 Coach of the Year — ranked Terry Stotts, then Brad Stevens, then Dwane Casey, similarity 0.28. The award went to Steve Kerr, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Jamal Crawford,
  2. 2 Jeremy Lin,
  3. 3 Will Barton
0.61
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Terry Stotts,
  2. 2 Brad Stevens,
  3. 3 Dwane Casey
0.28
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Tony Allen,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard
0.39
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Isaiah Thomas,
  2. 2 CJ McCollum,
  3. 3 Kemba Walker
0.39
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 Chris Paul,
  4. 4 Kawhi Leonard,
  5. 5 Damian Lillard
0.70
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Devin Booker
0.89

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Jamal Crawford,
  3. 3 Andre Iguodala
0.72
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Steve Kerr,
  2. 2 Mike Budenholzer,
  3. 3 Jason Kidd
0.67
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Draymond Green,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Tony Allen
0.56
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jimmy Butler,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Hassan Whiteside
0.89
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 LeBron James,
  4. 4 Russell Westbrook,
  5. 5 Chris Paul
0.96
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Nikola Mirotic,
  2. 2 Andrew Wiggins,
  3. 3 Elfrid Payton
0.56

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