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Voter profile
Sherrod Blakely
NBC Sports Boston 2018CSN New England 2017CSNNE.com 2016Comcast SportsNet 2015
Ballots cast
19
Seasons
4
2015–2018
Mean similarity
0.69
field 0.77 (-0.08)
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
2018 Coach of the Year — ranked
Brad Stevens, then Terry Stotts, then Dwane Casey, similarity 0.22.
Every ballot
2018
| Award | Their ranking | Similarity |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth Man of the Year |
| 0.56 |
| Coach of the Year |
| 0.22 |
| Defensive Player of the Year |
| 0.89 |
| Most Improved Player |
| 0.89 |
| Most Valuable Player |
| 0.77 |
| Rookie of the Year |
| 0.67 |
2017
| Award | Their ranking | Similarity |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth Man of the Year |
| 0.72 |
| Coach of the Year |
| 0.39 |
| Defensive Player of the Year |
| 0.50 |
| Most Improved Player |
| 0.89 |
| Most Valuable Player |
| 0.95 |
| Rookie of the Year |
| 0.89 |
2016
| Award | Their ranking | Similarity |
|---|---|---|
| Coach of the Year |
| 0.39 |
| Defensive Player of the Year |
| 0.72 |
2015
| Award | Their ranking | Similarity |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth Man of the Year |
| 0.67 |
| Defensive Player of the Year |
| 0.72 |
| Most Improved Player |
| 0.50 |
| Most Valuable Player |
| 0.73 |
| Rookie of the Year |
| 1.00 |
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