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Vince Ellis

Detroit Free Press 2015–2016
Ballots cast
12
Seasons
2
2015–2016
Mean similarity
0.64
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 Gregg Popovich, then Brad Stevens, then Terry Stotts, similarity 0.22. The award went to Steve Kerr, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

2016

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Enes Kanter,
  2. 2 Jamal Crawford,
  3. 3 Will Barton
0.39
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Gregg Popovich,
  2. 2 Brad Stevens,
  3. 3 Terry Stotts
0.22
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Kawhi Leonard,
  2. 2 Hassan Whiteside,
  3. 3 Rudy Gobert
0.72
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 CJ McCollum,
  2. 2 Jae Crowder,
  3. 3 Giannis Antetokounmpo
0.72
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 Stephen Curry,
  2. 2 Kawhi Leonard,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 LeBron James,
  5. 5 Kevin Durant
0.93
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Karl-Anthony Towns,
  2. 2 Kristaps Porzingis,
  3. 3 Jahlil Okafor
0.89

2015

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Isaiah Thomas,
  2. 2 Lou Williams,
  3. 3 Jamal Crawford
0.67
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 DeAndre Jordan,
  3. 3 Kawhi Leonard
0.50
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Rudy Gobert,
  2. 2 Jimmy Butler,
  3. 3 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
0.39
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 James Harden,
  2. 2 Stephen Curry,
  3. 3 Russell Westbrook,
  4. 4 Anthony Davis,
  5. 5 LeBron James
0.68
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Andrew Wiggins,
  2. 2 Nerlens Noel,
  3. 3 Nikola Mirotic
0.83

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