With piles of information at our fingertips, voting for MVP in the year 2015 feels like expert detective work. We comb through mountains of evidence, pick apart the film and weigh the possibilities with a discerning eye.

The candidates are all deserving. Stephen Curry, James Harden, LeBron James, Chris Paul, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook are the leading candidates, and it just so happens that they all rank at the top of the all-in-one metrics. To me, this isn't just a coincidence. In the information age, social media has accelerated the widespread adoption of advanced metrics to the point where it's almost impossible to imagine a toolbox without PER, on-off splits and win shares.

But advanced metrics weren't always such a large part of the conversation, just as everyone didn't always have a smartphone in hand.

Which are the worst MVPs, according to advanced metrics? And which players were the biggest MVP snubs?

To answer that question, I've culled three all-in-one metrics that go back to 1978, the first year that turnovers were recorded. The judges will be Justin Kubatko's win shares and Daniel Myers' box plus-minus, both of which can be found on Basketball-Reference.com, as well as ESPN Insider Kevin Pelton's WARP. I created a three-headed composite metric that averaged the players' rank in the trio of metrics to arrive at an advanced metrics vote.

So, which MVP was the biggest reach according to advanced metrics? Here are the five biggest MVP reaches, and on Tuesday we'll give you the five biggest MVP snubs.