Welcome to Survivor-Reference.com

The Torch Is Lit

After weeks of building, testing, and debating whether "Days Unsnuffed" and "Total Days Played" should be the same stat (they shouldn't; one tracks how long your torch was lit, the other counts time spent on Edge of Extinction staring at the ocean), Survivor-Reference.com is live.

This is the site I always wanted to exist. A comprehensive statistical reference for the greatest social experiment on television. Think Baseball-Reference, but for Survivor. Every player. Every season. Every stat that matters. And a few you didn't know you needed.

By the Numbers

751 player cards. Each one breaks down a player's career across 17 stats, organized into three pillars: Outwit (strategic game), Outplay (challenge performance), and Outlast (survival and results). Per-season logs. Tribal council vote histories. Challenge profiles. Badges earned.

50 season pages. Cast tables, tribal council timelines, jury vote matrices, and episode guides with IMDB ratings. From Borneo to the current season — S50 updates live as the season airs.

A player comparison tool on the All Stats page. Sort and rank all 751 players across any stat. Compare winners head to head. Stack up the newbies in any Fans vs. Favorites season. Find the best New Era winner by base Torch Score. See who really dominated the Outwit pillar, or who quietly posted elite challenge numbers without anyone noticing. It's the full roster, sortable and filterable. Go find the proof that backs up your hot take. (Or proves it wrong.)

Two composite metrics that bring it all together:

• Torch Score — the single-number career composite. Survivor-Reference's equivalent of WAR in baseball. Statistical performance plus achievement bonuses for winning, making FTC, and playing in returnee seasons. The all-time leaderboard starts with Tony Vlachos at 150.1 — the founding and sole member of The 150 Club.
• Jeff's Index — how much Probst and the production team invested in your screen presence. Not a performance stat. A storytelling stat. If Jeff calls you by your last name with a different energy, a singular reverence, you probably score well here.

A badge system that tracks the moments stats alone can't capture. Ghost badges for players who attended every tribal and never had their name written down. Unanimous Vote badges. Stealth R Us codenames. The Black Widow Brigade. Operation Italy. Cirie's Advantagegeddon. Even Stephenie LaGrossa's filet mignon pizza.

Things the Data Told Us

Building this site meant running every number across 26 years of Survivor. Some things confirmed what we already knew. Others surprised us.

Tony Vlachos stands alone. Two wins, two FTC appearances, three seasons. A base score of 78.1 plus 72 points in bonuses. 150.1. Nobody else is close to the 150 threshold. Sandra sits at #2 with 135.8.

The winner usually played the best statistical game — and it's not close. In 29 of 49 completed seasons, the Sole Survivor posted the highest base Torch Score in their cast. Sophie Clarke outscored Coach by over 11 points in South Pacific (84.2 to 72.7 — Coach wasn't even second). Natalie Anderson dominated San Juan del Sur. Erika Casupanan quietly posted the best base in her season at 84.4, eight points clear of Ricard Foye. And Sandra Diaz-Twine's "anyone but me" strategy in Pearl Islands? It wasn't just good TV. She posted the highest base Torch Score of anyone in the cast. Turns out, not being the target is a statistically elite way to play this game.

The one exception that proves how close the game can get? Ghost Island.

A 0.3-point gap. The closest statistical finish in Survivor history for a season that was decided by a single jury vote.

Oh, and Colby? He really did give away a million dollars in the Australian Outback. His S2 base Torch Score was 85.1, nearly nine points above Tina's 76.3. The data doesn't lie.

Every season page includes a full cast table with base Torch Scores. Go see who really dominated your favorite season.

Michele Fitzgerald is statistically vindicated. The Kaoh Rong winner that a vocal portion of the fanbase argued didn't deserve it? She ranks #5 among all Sole Survivors, with a career Torch Score of 115.9. Her base Torch Score for S32:

Ten full points. The numbers say what she's been saying all along.

Boston Rob and Parvati were robbed — and the data proves it. Rob's All-Stars season (S8) produced a base Torch Score of 88.6, the second-highest single-season base in history, behind only Ozzy's 89.2 in Cook Islands. He lost to Amber. (Though he won something more important that season.)

Parvati's Heroes vs. Villains season tells the same story from a different angle.

Both were punished by all-returnee juries who voted on reputation as much as gameplay. The Torch Score's Returnee Season Difficulty bonus exists because of seasons exactly like these.

27 players have achieved Ghost status — attending every tribal council in a season without a single vote cast against them. Tony did it in Winners at War. JT and Cochran went further: Ghost and Unanimous Vote in the same season. The True Perfect Game. Only two people in history.

What's Coming

This is v1 Beta. The data is verified and the stats are locked, but there's more on the way: prize money tracking, Fishy Award badges, and even more comparison tools. We'll update the site weekly in-season, once the data is collected, usually a few days after a new episode airs.

Get in Touch

Found a bug? Have a stat question? Want to make the case that your favorite player is underrated? We'd love to hear from you.

• Email: SurvivorReference@gmail.com
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