Survivor full-season statistical data
Survivor 4: Marquesas

By: Jeff Pitman | Last updated: June 25, 2023


Complete scoring data for  Survivor 4: Marquesas
  • For detailed, episode-by-episode scoring information, please check the Marquesas in-season boxscores.
  • For a detailed explanation of what the various scoring categories mean, see the glossary (abbreviated version below).
  • For actual order of finish, see the Survivometer 4.
  • S4: Marquesas View/download: Our Google sheet containing all scoring data for Survivor: Marquesas.
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Scoring notes:
  • *Paschal's purple rock: This is ... how do we put this gently? ... a weird season. Not only does the fourth-place finisher nearly end up with the top score, that score is pretty much entirely due to an event that was not repeated for the subsequent 22 seasons: drawing rocks. Paschal was eliminated by the famed Purple Rock of Death, so he never received a single vote against him, despite being booted at F4. We should probably come up with some way to add a fake vote against, but at least for now, we'll let it stand as a warning to future Survivor contestants: If you draw rocks, not only could someone be randomly eliminated, but they'll end up with a ridiculously inflated SurvAv.
  • Updated scoring update (June, 2023): We've reversed our reversal of our scoring for the weird (and now rare) case of Final 3 votes, where only the F3 IC winner casts a ballot, sending one last person to the jury. In the current version, only the F3 IC winner (here, Neleh) gets VFB or TCA credit. She and the person receiving the vote (Kathy) see 1 TotV, Kathy gets a VAP without a TCA. Sort of like a modern player receiving a vote against while being unable to vote due to some dumb advantage. Vecepia is completely unaffected: 0 VFB, 0 TCA, 0 TotV.
Survivor: Marquesas scoring data



Challenge stats Tribal council stats Jury stats
Contestant SurvSc SurvAv ChW ChA ChW% SO VFB VAP TotV TCA TC% wTCR JVF TotJ JV%
Vecepia 1.48 9.27 2.45 13.48 0.18 2 8 2 78 11 0.72 3.39 4 7 0.57
Paschal* 1.12 9.07 2.84 12.46 0.23 1 8 0 58 9 0.89 6.22 - - -
Neleh 1.50 8.06 2.34 13.46 0.17 1 9 4 59 10 0.89 3.15 3 7 0.43
Kathy 1.10 6.93 4.51 13.46 0.34 0 7 5 59 9 0.77 2.42 - - -
Tammy 0.93 4.88 3.01 8.46 0.36 3 3 5 42 5 0.58 1.87 - - -
Sean 0.84 3.53 1.75 11.48 0.15 3 7 7 74 10 0.69 1.78 - - -
Robert 0.65 3.02 1.62 9.46 0.17 4 3 6 48 6 0.48 1.40 - - -
Zoe 0.84 2.71 0.96 6.46 0.15 2 3 8 35 4 0.69 1.75 - - -
Gina 0.76 2.35 0.75 1.98 0.13 1 2 3 30 5 0.38 1.60 - - -
Boston Rob 0.84 2.12 0.25 2.98 0.08 2 4 8 39 5 0.76 1.87 - - -
John 0.68 2.12 0.56 4.96 0.11 4 2 8 27 3 0.57 1.56 - - -
Patricia 0.33 1.56 0.00 0.41 0.00 0 1 5 15 2 0.33 1.56 - - -
Sarah 0.64 1.40 0.00 0.98 0.00 0 3 11 26 4 0.64 1.40 - - -
Hunter 0.27 1.17 0.00 0.78 0.00 0 1 4 21 3 0.27 1.17 - - -
Gabriel -0.22 0.96 0.96 1.46 0.66 1 0 7 8 1 -0.88 0.00 - - -
Peter -0.63 0.00 0.00 0.13 0.00 0 0 5 8 1 -0.63 0.00 - - -
Survivor: Marquesas individual challenges
Contestant MPF ChA MPF*
ChA
E7 IC E8 RC E8 IC E9 IC E10 RC E10 IC E11 IC E12 RC E12 IC F4 IC F3 IC
Tammy 70.5% 6 4.23 0.80 0.50 1.00 1.00 0.71 0.21 - - - - -
Boston Rob 70.0% 1 0.70 0.70 - - - - - - - - - -
Kathy 62.8% 11 6.91 1.00 1.00 0.33 0.31 0.71 0.57 0.67 0.60 1.00 0.38 0.33
Vecepia 61.5% 11 6.76 0.40 0.50 0.22 0.88 0.14 0.86 1.00 0.60 0.50 1.00 0.67
John 61.5% 3 1.84 0.90 0.50 0.44 - - - - - - - -
Zoe 61.4% 4 2.45 0.60 0.50 0.67 0.69 - - - - - - -
Neleh 60.7% 11 6.67 0.10 0.50 0.78 0.31 0.43 0.57 0.83 0.60 0.80 0.75 1.00
Robert 58.8% 7 4.12 0.20 0.50 0.89 0.31 0.71 1.00 0.50 - - - -
Sean 45.7% 9 4.11 0.50 0.50 0.11 0.31 0.29 0.57 0.33 1.00 0.50 - -
Paschal 42.0% 10 4.20 0.30 0.50 0.56 0.69 1.00 0.21 0.17 0.20 0.20 0.38 -
Glossary of terms
  • Challenge stats
    • ChW: Challenge Wins. For tribal challenges, a contestant earns a fraction of 1 win, depending on if they participated (no points for sitting out). So in a five-person tribe's win, each participant gets (1/5) of a point, or 0.2 points. Duels (or individual RCs as in Ep1) at Redemption Island count as half a challenge (and half a win). Individual challenge wins count as a full point.
    • ChA: Challenge Appearances. Used to calculate ChW%. Fractional for tribal challenges (same as ChW), except sit-outs get charged for an appearance, because they could have participated.
    • ChW%: Challenge Win%. Simply, ChW% = ChW / ChA.
    • SO: The number of times a contestant sat out of a challenge.
  • Tribal Council stats
    • VFB: Votes For Bootee. The number of times the contestant has voted for the person who was ultimately voted out. Applies only to initial votes (no points for revotes in case of a tie). Special case: In a final three TC, where only one vote is cast (by the F3 IC winner), only that vote counts.
    • VAP: Votes Against the Player. The total number of tribal council votes cast against the contestant. Again, only initial votes count (no penalty for revotes), and here a hidden immunity idol (if played) erases the votes. In the special case of a final three tribal council above, only the F3 bootee receives a vote against.
    • TotV: Total votes cast during the tribal councils the player has attended (again, only initial votes count). Used to adjust for different vote totals as tribes shrink.
    • TCA: Tribal council appearances. The number of times a contestant has attended tribal council (at which they voted).
    • TC%: Tribal Council percent. Attempts to reward voting for the bootee (which players controlling the vote almost always do), while punishing receiving votes yourself. The formula is: TC% = [VFB - (VAP/TotV)] / TCA.
    • wTCR: weighted Tribal Council Ratio. Very similar in intent to TC%, but calculated as a ratio of VFB to VAP, while also scaling to a uniform number of TC appearances. The formula is as follows: wTCR =2* [VFB / (4+VAP)] x (14/TCA). I originally tried (1+VAP) to avoid dividing by zero, but this overly rewarded getting zero votes against relative to just one vote against, which seemed silly. (4+VAP) scaled that effect back comfortably. 14 was used as the scaling factor for TC appearances because there are usually 14 episodes, then a final scaling factor of 2 to bring maximal scores up to roughly even with ChW and JV% high scores.
  • Jury stats
    • JVF: Number of jury votes for the contestant to win. Maximum nine (Earl Cole, Fiji), theoretically.
    • TotJ: Total number of jurors. Necessary to not punish unanimous 7-juror winners (JT Thomas, Tocantins).
    • JV%: The percent of total jury votes cast for the contestant, or Jur% = JVF/ TotJ. This number is used, raw, in SurvSc, and is scaled in SurvAv (multiplied by six) to make it similar in size to ChW and wTCR.
  • Overall scores
    • Survival Score (SurvSc). It's simply the sum of Challenge Win% (ChW%) + Tribal Council% (TC%) + Jury Vote%, for a maximum possible score of 2 (3 after the finale).
    • Survival Average (SurvAv). It's a simple sum of fractional Challenge Wins (ChW), weighted TC Ratio (wTCR), and (eventually) a weighted Jury%. The latter two max out at six points total, for a theoretical maximum score of around 18 or so.