# Professor Jeffrey Simonoff weighs in on how producers who vote for their own shows at the Tony Awards impact the final results

1 Faculty News June 7, 2019 ![Broadway Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Broadway-Journal-logo-feature.jpg?itok=xGfsRatK)>

Excerpt from [Broadway Journal](http://broadwayjournal.com/tootsies-insider-advantage-at-the-tonys/) -- '"It could actually make a big difference, depending on how evenly matched the shows really are,' said [Jeffrey Simonoff](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jeffrey-simonoff), a statistics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who has studied Broadway."

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