NBA Award Predictions
2025 Awards
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1978-79 - Defensive Player of the Year
Last Update: Oct. 31, 2024, 12:07 a.m.
Model Type: CatBoost Regression Model.
Target: Vote share scaled to sum to 1 by season.
Prediction: Vote share scaled to sum to 1.
Name
Predicted Vote Share
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
0.365
Robert Parish
0.071
Elvin Hayes
0.064
M.L. Carr
0.052
Norm Nixon
0.037
George Gervin
0.029
Larry Kenon
0.028
Tree Rollins
0.026