Poll Stats, "What If", Fun Facts, and Trivia
Many thanks to Mediajock for all his hard work putting this very interesting information together!
Folks,
Another poll season is upon us. besides being just a chance to see how well our favorites did, this is a time of celebration of achievement for young talent and a highlight that, in one respect or another, all are winners.
So, to better measure this extraordinary success of 2005's best and brightest, let's run the numbers...
There were 90 votes cast for any of the 438 submitted nominees during the 11 days the poll was open. From these:
- 134 different performers received at least one of the 1323 points awarded.
From these:
- 45 received at least one first place vote.
From these:
- There was one clear cut top finisher but, again, all were winners.
Mentions
Here are the Top 15 (18 due to ties at #15) actors in terms of mentions on ballots - regardless of rank on the ballot:
| Mentions | Performer |
|---|---|
| 23 | Freddie Highmore |
| 17 | Cole Sprouse |
| 16 | Oliver Davis |
| 15 | Shane Haboucha |
| 14 | Logan Lerman |
| 12 | Dylan Sprouse |
| 11 | Carter Jenkins |
| 10 | Erik Per Sullivan |
| 9 | Jimmy Bennett |
| 9 | Jesse McCartney |
| 9 | Daniel Radcliffe |
| 9 | Devon Werkheiser |
| 8 | William Moseley |
| 8 | Liam Mower |
| 7 | Cayden Boyd |
| 7 | Skandar Keynes |
| 7 | Taylor Lautner |
| 7 | Jeremy Sumpter |
Average ballot score of the Top 20
Perhaps it might be interesting to see how the Top 20 (22 due to ties at #18) fared with each of their voters on average.
| Performer | Average Score |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Bennett | 4.11 |
| Carter Jenkins | 4.00 |
| Cayden Boyd | 3.86 |
| George Maguire | 3.83 |
| Freddie Highmore | 3.78 |
| William Moseley | 3.75 |
| Liam Mower | 3.50 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | 3.44 |
| Leon Cooke | 3.33 |
| Tyler James Williams | 3.33 |
| Yagira Yuuya | 3.33 |
| Logan Lerman | 3.29 |
| Erik Per Sullivan | 3.20 |
| Shane Haboucha | 3.13 |
| Jeremy Sumpter | 3.00 |
| Devon Werkheiser | 3.00 |
| Oliver Davis | 2.94 |
| Skandar Keynes | 2.86 |
| Taylor Lautner | 2.86 |
| Dylan Sprouse | 2.83 |
| Cole Sprouse | 2.82 |
| Jesse McCartney | 2.78 |
Dropping 5th place
Dropping all 1 point votes from the actors leaves, as usual, practically no change aside from the order:
| Performer | Points |
|---|---|
| Freddie Highmore | 85 |
| Oliver Davis | 46 |
| Shane Haboucha | 45 |
| Carter Jenkins | 44 |
| Cole Sprouse | 44 |
| Logan Lerman | 42 |
| Jimmy Bennett | 37 |
| Dylan Sprouse | 32 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | 30 |
| Erik Per Sullivan | 30 |
Dropping 4th place
We do have an order change plus a couple of new entrants to the Top 10 if we drop the bottom 2 from each ballot:
| Performer | Points |
|---|---|
| Freddie Highmore | 81 |
| Carter Jenkins | 42 |
| Logan Lerman | 42 |
| Shane Haboucha | 39 |
| Cole Sprouse | 36 |
| Jimmy Bennett | 35 |
| Oliver Davis | 32 |
| William Moseley | 28 |
| Cayden Boyd | 26 |
| Daniel Radcliffe | 26 |
Most 1st place votes
If everyone just had to pick their favorite, here is how everyone would rank:
| Votes | Performers |
|---|---|
| 10 | Freddie Highmore |
| 5 | Jimmy Bennett, William Moseley, Liam Mower |
| 4 | Cayden Boyd, Logan Lerman, Erik Per Sullivan |
| 3 | Oliver Davis, Carter Jenkins, Frankie Ryan Manriquez, Jesse McCartney, Daniel Radcliffe |
| 2 | Asher Book, Leon Cooke, Ryan Cooley, Shane Haboucha, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse |
| 1 | Spencer Achtymichuk, Luke Benward, Sean Berdy, Taylor Boggan, Cameron Bright, Adam Butcher, Harrison Chad, Dean Collins, Harry Eden, Luis Armand Garcia, Jordan Garrett, Skandar Keynes, Taylor Lautner, George Maguire, Reiley McClendon, Jack McElhone, Yuto Nakajima, Jasper Oldenhof, Connor Paolo, Max Pirkis, Thomas Sangster, Ryan Sheckler, Jeremy Sumpter, Jake Thomas, Michael Welch, Kota Yabu, Yagira Yuuya |
Most 2nd place votes
| Votes | Performers |
|---|---|
| 6 | Carter Jenkins |
| 5 | Shane Haboucha, Freddie Highmore, Cole Sprouse |
| 4 | Logan Lerman, George Maguire |
| 3 | Oliver Davis, Devon Werkheiser, Tyler James Williams |
Most 3rd place votes
| Votes | Performers |
|---|---|
| 4 | Freddie Highmore, James Lomas, Devon Werkheiser |
| 3 | Chase Ellison, Alexander Gould, Shane Haboucha, Taylor Lautner, Jeremy Sumpter, Tyler James Williams |
Most 4th place votes
| Votes | Performers |
|---|---|
| 7 | Oliver Davis |
| 4 | Adam Butcher, Angus T. Jones, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse |
| 3 | Shane Haboucha, Skandar Keynes, Taylor Lautner, Erik Per Sullivan |
Most 5th place votes
| Votes | Performers |
|---|---|
| 4 | Logan Lerman, Cole Sprouse |
| 3 | Jesse McCartney, Max Thieriot |
Biggest jump from 2004
Here are the 10 most giant leaps for mediaboykind in 2005 - a special congrats to Cayden Boyd for his 155 point surge, the biggest in poll history!
| 2005 | 2004 | Spread | Performer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 168 | 155 | Cayden Boyd |
| 31 | 168 | 137 | Dean Collins |
| 55 | 168 | 113 | Josh Hutcherson |
| 63 | 168 | 105 | Kota Yabu |
| 36 | 139 | 103 | Angus T. Jones |
| 31 | 120 | 89 | Michael Cera |
| 27 | 98 | 71 | David Dorfman |
| 6 | 72 | 66 | Carter Jenkins |
| 18 | 80 | 62 | Yagira Yuuya |
| 85 | 139 | 54 | David Henrie |
CURIOSITY: 4 of these 10 (Boyd, Collins, Jenkins, Henrie) had regular or prominent roles on new shows in 2005.
Biggest slide from 2004
Here are the 10 who dropped the most. Though an ominous category, it helps to think that even the biggest slider didn't drop nearly as far as over half the jumpers rose:
| 2005 | 2004 | Spread | Performer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 103 | 12 | -91 | Martin Spanjers |
| 103 | 13 | -90 | Zac Efron |
| 115 | 45 | -70 | Jimmy "Jax" Pinchak |
| 115 | 58 | -57 | Bobby Edner |
| 63 | 9 | -54 | Cameron Bright |
| 85 | 36 | -49 | Anton Yelchin |
| 115 | 72 | -43 | Nick Benson |
| 46 | 4 | -42 | Jake Thomas |
| 72 | 30 | -42 | John Patrick Amedori |
| 85 | 43 | -42 | Ryan Pinkston |
CURIOSITY: 4 of these 10 (Spanjers, Efron, Benson, Pinkston) were on series that were cancelled in 2005.
Tightest stickers since 2004
The performers that moved the least since last year:
| 2005 | 2004 | Spread | Performer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 10 | 1 | Erik Per Sullivan |
| 10 | 8 | -2 | Daniel Radcliffe |
| 27 | 30 | 3 | Frankie Ryan Manriquez |
| 27 | 24 | -3 | Connor Paolo |
Highest finish with no 1st place votes:
Devon Werkheiser (13rd place, 27 points, 9 mentions)
Lowest finish with a first place vote:
Note that for this statistic, only ballots with five names have been included.
Luke Benward (63rd place, 5 points, 1 mention)
Sean Berdy (63rd place, 5 points, 1 mention)
Taylor Boggan (63rd place, 5 points, 1 mention)
Cameron Bright (63rd place, 5 points, 1 mention)
Kota Yabu (63rd place, 5 points, 1 mention)
Best New Artists
Here are the Top 10 first time entrants to the poll with overall rank:
| Rank | Performer |
|---|---|
| 11 | William Moseley |
| 12 | Liam Mower |
| 16 | George Maguire |
| 18 | Leon Cooke |
| 18 | Skandar Keynes |
| 18 | Taylor Lautner |
| 18 | Tyler James Williams |
| 23 | Chase Ellison |
| 25 | James Lomas |
| 27 | Adam Butcher |
CURIOSITY: New artists tend to indicate who will win the poll the following year. Logan Lerman was 2003's BNA and went on to win in 2004, and Freddie Highmore was 2004's top poll debut.
CURIOSITY: Evidently this trend has to be broken this year - William Mosley's debut is also his last year of eligibility.
| Jumpers | 33 |
| Sliders | 28 |
| New entries | 50 |
| Re-entries | 23 |
Poll Skew:
Percentage of total points awarded that went to the Top 10:
34.24% = over 1/3
Percentage of actors that got just one vote:
43.28% = over 1/3
Other numbers of interest:
Average age of the Top 10:
13.2 (down from 14.1 last year)
Number of seconds we had to enjoy these worthy nominees in 2005:
31,536,001 (they added a second to the atomic clock in 2005 - sweet!)
Number of quintuplets that looked like each other in Quintuplets: 0.
Degrees turned collectively by Ryan Sheckler and the Z-Boys in Lords of Dogtown:
3600 (or some multiple of 360)
Record Powerball jackpot last fall we all wish we had won: $340,000,000
Mediajock
