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Steve Buckhantz

Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic 2015–2016
Ballots cast
10
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.74
field 0.77 (-0.03)
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 Sixth Man of the Year — ranked Will Barton, then Jamal Crawford, then Enes Kanter, similarity 0.39.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Will Barton,
  2. 2 Jamal Crawford,
  3. 3 Enes Kanter
0.39
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Terry Stotts,
  2. 2 Steve Kerr,
  3. 3 Brad Stevens
0.56
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Hassan Whiteside
1.00
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 Russell Westbrook,
  3. 3 Chris Paul,
  4. 4 Kawhi Leonard,
  5. 5 LeBron James
0.68
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 Isaiah Thomas,
  3. 3 Jamal Crawford
1.00
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Mike Budenholzer,
  2. 2 Steve Kerr,
  3. 3 Kevin McHale
0.89
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 DeAndre Jordan,
  2. 2 Draymond Green,
  3. 3 Tim Duncan
0.39
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Jimmy Butler,
  2. 2 Giannis Antetokounmpo,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 LeBron James,
  3. 3 James Harden,
  4. 4 Russell Westbrook,
  5. 5 Chris Paul
0.86

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