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

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