Post by eric on May 22, 2021 17:15:27 GMT -5
The once-indispensable still-pretty-good www.basketball-reference.com/ has a reference for MVP shares, but I was curious how players of a necessarily recent vintage stacked up in Defensive Player of the Year shares. First of all, everyone knows DPOY was first awarded in 1983, but only slightly less well-known is that voting for DPOY was one vote per voter from 1983 to 2002 before moving to three votes per voter from 2003 to the present day - five points for first place, three for second, one for third. All data for DPOY will refer to the modern post-02 era only.
First of all, do shares even track well with actual awards? Let's look!
awwww yisss. The big outliers in either direction are
Marc Gasol getting 1 DPOY with .375 career share
and
Bruce Bowen getting 0 DPOY with 1.498 career share
but overall it tracks pretty well:
Conspicuous by his absence, first of all, the co-leader for All-Defensive First Teams: Kobe Bean Bryant.
Turns out he missed even the sketchy long tail of Marc "Not Uros Slokar" Gasol by another eight spots, coming in at a cool #29, behind even known loser Andre Iguodala.
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First of all, every MVP of the past seventeen years has received at least some Most Improved Player votes between 1997 and the present day, but only three have also received Sixth Man of the Year share:
James "Honey Bun" Harden is of course the second player in the history of NBA history to win both SMOY and MVP after "No Honor" Bill "The Scumbag" Walton. Since the only other MVPs to receive any Sixth share are all under .1 (Magic Johnson 1996, Moses Malone 1991, Bob McAdoo 1985), that means Kobe has by FAR the most SMOY share of MVPs who didn't win SMOY!!
So first of all, he's got that going for him.
First of all, do shares even track well with actual awards? Let's look!
awwww yisss. The big outliers in either direction are
Marc Gasol getting 1 DPOY with .375 career share
andBruce Bowen getting 0 DPOY with 1.498 career share
but overall it tracks pretty well:
Share DPOY Name
3.242 3 Dwight Howard
2.731 3 Ben Wallace
2.728 2 Rudy Gobert
2.059 1 Draymond Green
1.758 2 Kawhi Leonard
1.498 0 Bruce Bowen
1.424 1 Giannis Antetokounmpo
1.376 1 Kevin Garnett
1.331 1 Marcus Camby
1.283 1 Metta World Peace
1.099 1 Joakim Noah
.887 0 Anthony Davis
.886 0 LeBron James
.860 0 Tim Duncan
.834 0 Serge Ibaka
.691 1 Tyson Chandler
.676 0 DeAndre Jordan
.548 0 Shane Battier
.517 0 Paul George
.375 0 Joel Embiid
.375 1 Marc GasolConspicuous by his absence, first of all, the co-leader for All-Defensive First Teams: Kobe Bean Bryant.
Turns out he missed even the sketchy long tail of Marc "Not Uros Slokar" Gasol by another eight spots, coming in at a cool #29, behind even known loser Andre Iguodala.
.
First of all, every MVP of the past seventeen years has received at least some Most Improved Player votes between 1997 and the present day, but only three have also received Sixth Man of the Year share:
MIP SMOY name
.135 .032 Derrick Rose
.255 0 Dirk Nowitzki
1.064 0 Giannis Antetokounmpo
.102 1.014 James Harden
.316 0 Kevin Durant
.040 0 Kevin Garnett
.036 .267 Kobe Bryant
.112 0 LeBron James
.193 0 Russell Westbrook
.030 0 Shaquille O'Neal
.158 0 Stephen Curry
.170 0 Steve NashJames "Honey Bun" Harden is of course the second player in the history of NBA history to win both SMOY and MVP after "No Honor" Bill "The Scumbag" Walton. Since the only other MVPs to receive any Sixth share are all under .1 (Magic Johnson 1996, Moses Malone 1991, Bob McAdoo 1985), that means Kobe has by FAR the most SMOY share of MVPs who didn't win SMOY!!
So first of all, he's got that going for him.