SurvivorSA 9: Return of the Outcasts Episode 15 boxscore

SurvivorSA 9: Return of the Outcasts boxscores

Ep. 15: "High Risk, High Reward"

By Jeff Pitman | Published: August 11, 2022

SA: Return of the Outcasts Episode 15 boxscore

Filmed: February 11-12, 2022 | Aired: August 10, 2022

Ep.15 Reward/Immunity challenge: ("Will It Go Round"/Table maze/"Houses of the Holey") - It's a multi-stage elimination challenge! For immunity! And a car! And a picnic! Dino wins! Also, the non-rewardees draw rocks, and Marian wins a trip to the Outpost.
Ep.15 reward: Dino takes his new Mahindra XUV 300 and three friends (Phil, Steffi, Meryl - the Didn't Get To Eat Breakfast Club) to a picnic. They talk and stuff.
Ep.15 Outpost: Marian has to choose between an idol clue and a bag of rice for the tribe. She chooses rice.

Ep.15 voted out: Steffi, 5-4, over Meryl, as Felix (!) spearheads a successful attempt to flip the balance of power.

Episode 15 scoring notes

The challenge: Placement for MPF purposes depends on the contestant's performance in the final stage of the challenge in which they participated. So the three people eliminated in the first stage are out in the order they dropped. Simple! For the table maze, everyone eliminated was tied for 4th place (because their progress was unshown, and we can't assume they'd maintan it, anyway). For the final task, Meryl was clearly 3rd, with no balls placed, and Tejan 2nd.

Vote count:

Steffi received 7 votes, from Dino, Felix, Meryl, Phil, and Tejan (voted out, 5-4).
Meryl received 4 votes, from Killarney, Marian, Shane, and Steffi.

Episode 15 boxscore - Challenge
	Reward/ Immunity challenge
Contestant	ChW	ChA	Plc	% Fin	MPF
Meryl	0	1	3	0.78	74.4%
Tejan	0	1	2	0.89	73.6%
Phil	0	1	t-4	0.56	68.5%
Shane	0	1	t-4	0.56	59.4%
Steffi	0	1	7	0.33	58.1%
Dino	1	1	1	1.00	56.1%
Killarney	0	1	t-4	0.56	44.3%
Marian	0	1	8	0.22	42.3%
Felix	0	1	9	0.11	23.4%

Episode 15 boxscore - Tribal
	Tribal council stats				Overall scores
Contestant	VFB	VAP	TotV	TCA	SurvSc	SurvAv
Phil	1	-	9	1	1.12	6.90
Dino	1	-	9	1	1.12	5.15
Tejan	1	-	9	1	0.93	5.02
Meryl	1	4	9	1	1.25	3.97
Marian	0	-	9	1	0.99	3.62
Felix	1	-	9	1	0.70	3.27
Killarney	0	-	9	1	0.92	2.96
Shane	0	-	9	1	0.74	2.78
Steffi	0	5	9	1	0.80	2.76
Danté	-	-	-	-	0.87	2.03
Toni	-	-	-	-	0.76	2.22
Palesa	-	-	-	-	0.96	3.12
Thoriso	-	-	-	-	0.97	3.28
Pinty	-	-	-	-	1.12	2.09
Shona	-	-	-	-	0.72	2.23
Seamus	-	-	-	-	0.67	1.27
Tevin	-	-	-	-	0.74	1.77
Tania	-	-	-	-	-0.42	0.21
PK	-	-	-	-	0.19	0.10
Chappies	-	-	-	-	0.00	0.10

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.