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Monday, November 21, 2011
BBWAA v IBA
Here are the points awarded by the BBWAA for the AL MVP, along with the IBA points (indexed so that the sum of IBA = sum of BBWAA):
BBWAA IBA Player
280 223 Justin Verlander
242 245 Jacoby Ellsbury
231 296 Jose Bautista
215 170 Curtis Granderson
193 187 Miguel Cabrera
112 76 Robinson Cano
105 81 Adrian Gonzalez
96 17 Michael Young
48 70 Dustin Pedroia
27 33 Evan Longoria
25 39 Ian Kinsler
13 20 Alex Avila
11 6 Paul Konerko
10 25 CC Sabathia
9 21 Adrian Beltre
7 11 Ben Zobrist
7 4 Victor Martinez
7 5 James Shields
5 3 Mark Teixeira
4 6 Asdrubal Cabrera
3 20 Alex Gordon
1 10 Josh Hamilton
1 0 David Robertson
0 24 Mike Napoli
0 13 Jered Weaver
0 45 Split among 73 others
Overall, we see pretty strong agreement. The BBWAA liked Verlander more than the IBA, and the IBA preferred Bautista more than the BBWAA. Given that you have 28 BBWAA voters, and you have over 600 IBA voters, it seems to me that picking out 28 random of 600 IBA voters would give you what the BBWAA did occasionally.
The other big standout is that the BBWAA really liked Michael Young, while Mike Napoli was completely shutout by the BBWAA. That one is probably the biggest standout.
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Another interesting distinction, to me at least, is the difference in the relative treatment of Cano and Pedroia.