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Scott Lauer

WFNZ-610AM 2015
Ballots cast
3
Seasons
1
2015
Mean similarity
0.57
field 0.77 (-0.20)
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 Defensive Player of the Year — ranked Rudy Gobert, then DeAndre Jordan, then Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, similarity 0.11. The award went to Draymond Green, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 DeAndre Jordan,
  3. 3 Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
0.11
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jimmy Butler,
  2. 2 Klay Thompson,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis,
  4. 4 Russell Westbrook,
  5. 5 LeBron James
0.88

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