#SLOE: People's Basketball Sim League

That's right, two articles in one day! I'm feeling inspired.

One of the most coveted awards in PBSL, besides the championship of course, is the General Manager of the Year Award. It gives credit not only to a GM's ability to acquire talent, but to put them in the right position. We could write theses and novels on what the qualifications are for a GMOY, but that's not what this article is about. Instead, I wanted to analyze the GMOY voting process every year and see if the winner of GMOY was a good indicator of winning a title. I'm going to present a table that shows the season, the GMOY as voted by other GMs (the official one), the GMOY as selected by the computer (unofficial), and which GM actually won the title that year. Then I'm going to make some observations based on the table.
* Three times the voted GMOY also won the championship that year: 2000 with Ballsohard, 2001 with WigNosy, and 2007 with TheSyndicate.
* The Computer has predicted a champion through GMOY once, in 1998 (THANKS TANI)
* The leader for most Official GMOY wins is Ballsohard with 3. The winner for most Unofficial GMOY wins with 4 is Bowtothebill, who has never won an official vote.
* Only once has the computer and the voters agreed: in 1999, when your humble writer won both.
* There have been 14 Official GMOY. Of those 14, 8 have won a championship in any year.
* There are 5 GMs who have won multiple Official GMOYs: Ballsohard (3), DarthVegito (2), JNR (2), TheSyndicate (2), and WigNosy (2). Of those five, only JNR has never won a title.
* The year RoboGM1 won an unofficial GMOY, the Sixers were 31-51. I have no idea what the computer liked about them.

I hope you enjoyed this exploration into the GMOY Award!

1998*

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Also great article JNR. I saw something interesting in that often a GM who won the gmoy may not have won ithe ship that season, but won later in like a season or two. Interesting.

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NOLa. wrote:1998*

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Why are you *'ing Darth's championship?

He was pointing out that the computer DID predict a GMOY to win a ring in 98. I had previously said that was not the case. I edited it.

JNR wrote:He was pointing out that the computer DID predict a GMOY to win a ring in 98. I had previously said that was not the case. I edited it.

Correct

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IamQuailman wrote:

NOLa. wrote:1998*

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Why are you *'ing Darth's championship?

I thought that was obvious. Because it was the greatest of them all.

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You're awarded 5 points for your article. Thank you for your media contribution.

A couple things I found cool: of the 11 GMs to win a title, 8 have won GMOY at least once. Of the 6 teams to win multiple titles, 5 have won GMOY. In general, I feel like we've done a pretty good job voting for the best GMs. Also, I find it crazy that in 20 years, 6 GMs have won 15 of the championships.