I tried doing these weekly updates in the past.

Someone asked that I do them again for this season @Canuck@sh.itjust.works

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.

Number of contestants by generation by season

First Season a generation appeared in

Last season a generation appeared in (so far)

First season of plurality

Number of seasons participated in

Total participants

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)

^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

This sloppy bash script generates the above html players table from this site:

https://ew.com/survivor-46-cast-contestants-revealed-8557071

Maybe this can be expanded to track player eliminations.

Hopefully this code posts correctly...

#!/bin/bash
#
# List Survivor Season 46 Players
#
#

URL=https://ew.com/survivor-46-cast-contestants-revealed-8557071

cat <
DONE


wget $URL -O - \
    | grep -A 5 "mntl-sc-block-heading__text" \
    | sed 's/.*__text"> /<div><div>/g' \
    | sed 's/&lt;\/span.*/<br>/g' \
    | sed 's/&lt;\/img>&lt;\/div>/g' \
    | sed '/^\-\-$/d' \
    | sed '/^$/d' 


echo "</div>"

This is a long shot. Probably no one is here but hopefully people might search and find this one day and join the community. I'll be here in the thread if anyone wants to chat about tonight's episode.