I tried doing these weekly updates in the past.

Someone asked that I do them again for this season @[email protected]

Let's get some content up in here!!

I got tired of jumping between different Survivor season rankings, so I compiled five lists I found online- Purple Rock, Slant Magazine, Collider, BuzzFeed, and EW into a spreadsheet.

Then, I averaged them to create a combined ranking.

Next, I pulled IMDB episode ratings for every season and calculated an average episode rating per season for a different ranked list.

Finally, I put everything into a spreadsheet with color scales for fun visualization.

I'm testing a FOSS spreadsheet editor (not mine), but I can't seem to make the file protected while still allowing filtering/sorting: 47 Survivor Seasons Ranked, online via cryptpad

^^Having url issues where the + is getting converted and breaking the link

Here’s the file itself: 47 Survivor Seasons Ranked

I finally got caught up on season 46. After stumbling on a discussion on /r/survivor about generational^1^ participation and play styles I decided to waste a whole bunch of time and pulled together some data^2^. I thought it was interesting and thought I’d share.

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Number of contestants by generation by season

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First Season a generation appeared in

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Last season a generation appeared in (so far)

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First season of plurality

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Number of seasons participated in

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Total participants

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Miscellaneous

• Only Gen X has appeared in every season
• Only Season 32 had a representative from all 5 Generations
• Seasons 3, 28, 35, and 40 only had 2 Generations represented
• Season 33 was "Gen X vs Millennials" but had a Boomer and a Zoomer (by USC Standards)

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^1^ Generations are arbitrary, inconsistent, and ill defined. I used USCs definitions ^3^ for no particular reason other than I had to pick something

^2^ A contestant is counted for each appearance in a season at the age of their appearance in each season. Contestant’s generation was determined by minus . Age and Filming dates were sourced from Wikipedia

^3^ https://libguides.usc.edu/busdem/age