MLB award voting uses a Borda Count. The idea behind the Borda count is to pick a good choice for a winner when there is no clear favorite. In those cases, the consensus second choice wins, as we saw in the AL Cy Young vote today, Wednesday. By ranking candidates, no one wins by a plurality. Justin Verlander received 14 first place votes, meaning most writers did not think he deserved the award. In fact, most of those who didn’t put him first, didn’t put him second either. On the other hand, 26 voters thought Rick Porcello was first or second. As a group, the community thought Porcello was the best pitcher, although individually few thought he was number one. In this case, the Borda count did it’s job of finding the consensus in a field where there were highly divergent views of the pitchers.
Update: It looks like everyone who ranked Corey Kluber and Zach Britton first ranked Porcello second. So if MLB used an instant runoff, Porcello would have won as well.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2gijZuq
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