this. a thousand times THIS. holy shiite, clutchfans is worse than a first quarter game thread. for the love of God, everybody, STAY CALM.
Typical Westbrook voter would drive 30 miles outside of town to go to the 99 Cent store rather than walk across the street to the Dollar General #base10
Nah. Presidential elections are idiotic. This is much more simple. I'm thinking 1st = 10 points. 2nd = 7 points. I'm only going to do first and second votes right now just to get a rudimentary idea. Westbrook has 29 first place votes right now. 2 of them are confirmed to vote Harden 3rd. If 27 (huge assumption, but not unlikely) of them vote Harden second, he gets 189 points. Westbrook gets 290. I would assume about half of the people voting Harden first pick Westbrook second. Because it logically makes no sense. They're probably going to pick Kawhi second. So Harden has 11 first place votes and maybe about 6 of them will vote Westbrook. So Harden gets 110 Westbrook gets 60 Then the Kawhi voters should probably vote Harden second. There are two of those right now. So Harden gets 14. Westbrook = 290+60 = 350 Harden = 189 + 110 + 14 = 303 This is a lot closer than it seems from the numbers in the OP. Granted I made a huge assumption that voters vote logically. Which probably isn't true. But it's probably more true than not true. Even if you factor in the ones putting Westbrook third: In my above example there's 5 + 2 = 7 People doing that. 7*5 = 35 And Harden third = 2 people? 2*5 = 10 The total would be: Westbrook 383 Harden 313 Still close. With 50+ votes to go.
Unclear if Marc Berman's vote is official, but he votes Westbrook, and takes a few shots at the Rockets organization. http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/russell-westbrook-is-the-mvp-even-by-your-best-harden-logic/
List of PTI/Around the Horn panelists and who they vote for: JA Adande- Westbrook (has official vote) Frank Isola- Westbrook (has official vote) Mike Wilbon- Westbrook (has official vote) Ramona Shelbourne- Westbrook (unconfirmed whether she has an official vote) Pablo Torre- Harden (doesn't have vote) Tony Kornheiser- Harden (doesn't have vote) Israel Gutierrez- Harden (doesn't have vote) Jackie MacMullan*- Harden (unconfirmed whether she has an official vote) So basically if you work for ESPN you were given a vote, unless you were gonna vote Harden. MEDIA CONSPIRACY!!!!
Stopped reading at "most exciting player in the nba since Kobe". Edit: Ok, I gave in and read it. Really, a scout thought Melo could do this? How do these guys earn their paycheck? His career high for assists is 11. I REPEAT, 11! Dumb.
ESPN probably said "hey guys who don't have votes. Make sure you say you'd vote Harden to avoid suspicion"
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it really bothers me that Israel and Pablo are two of the ESPN employees that don't get votes. They are some of the smartest analysts on the network.
I found this Google Doc of someone else at dreamshake also tracking MVP votes Currently stands at: Westbrook 34 (1) 8 (2) 4 (3) Harden 15 (1) 20 (2) 1 (3) Lebron 2 (1) 1 (2) 7 (3) 14 (4) Kawhi 3 (1) 2 (2) 10 (3) 8 (4) So Current math: Westbrook at 416 Harden at 295 Not to be a debbie downer, but it looks really bad for Harden, I'm not getting my hopes up. No MVP and more pressure in the first round, damn it ain't easy being Harden these days.
it doesn't look that bad to me...from what u just posted Westbrook has 46 votes for 416 points in comparison to Harden's 36 votes and 295 points Where's the other 10 votes for Harden?
Not sure how accurate the google doc is, but it's pretty well detailed and tells you who and what they've said their current vote is and whether they have a ballot or are likely to have a ballot. It seems to be a pretty good source to get a feeling of how Harden will once again get second place behind the media darling. Thanks KD for giving Russ his storyline:
