Retro POY 1955-56 (Voting complete)

[Doctor MJ]

'55-56 Results

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Player             1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Pts   POY Shares
1. Paul Arizin     10   1   1   0   0 112   0.933
2. Bob Pettit       2   9   1   0   0  88   0.733
3. Bob Cousy        0   0   8   2   1  47   0.392
4. Neil Johnston    0   2   1   3   5  33   0.275
5. Dolph Schayes    0   0   1   6   4  27   0.225
6. Maurice Stokes   0   0   0   1   1   4   0.033
7. George Yardley   0   0   0   0   1   1   0.008


[semi-sentient]

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Bob Pettit moves up to #14, passing Jerry West in the process. There's a remote chance that he passes up Kobe and Hakeem, but looking at the 1954-55 season summary I'm not sure if he's going to get many (if any) votes seeing as how the Hawks had the worst record in the league.

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1.  Bill Russell         10.956
2.  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  10.221
3.  Michael Jordan        9.578
4.  Wilt Chamberlain      7.818
5.  Magic Johnson         7.114
6.  Tim Duncan            6.153
7.  Larry Bird            6.147
8.  Shaquille O'Neal      5.910
9.  Julius Erving         5.046
10. Karl Malone           4.649
11. Oscar Robertson       4.413
12. Hakeem Olajuwon       4.380
13. Kobe Bryant           4.326
14. Bob Pettit            4.324
15. Jerry West            3.795

[eminence]

Teammate Mel Hutchins (F/C 12/7.5/2.7 .425 3.3fta) finished 4th in MVP voting – I must admit I know little about him or why he was valued roughly as highly as Bob Cousy (9 votes to Cousy’s 10).

Just a bit of a bump here, and maybe something you've learned about since then, but Hutchins had a very strong defensive reputation, Yardley called him the best defender he ever played with and Schayes said he was the best man defender he faced.

4th in MVP voting still a bit high for my tastes, but a good player for sure (I see the Pistons as a bit of a group effort from Yardley/Hutchins/Foust - edit: Phillip was a bit earlier, forgot '56 was his fall-off year).

And while I'm here, how I'd go for '56:
1. Arizin
2. Schayes
3. Johnston - tossup vs Pettit
4. Pettit
5. Cousy