NBA Award Predictions
2025 Awards
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1980-81 - 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
Julius Erving
0.168
Larry Bird
0.157
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
0.098
Robert Parish
0.091
George Johnson
0.063
Micheal Ray Richardson
0.036
Maurice Cheeks
0.034
Artis Gilmore
0.027
Magic Johnson
0.027