Survivor MPF leaders - Mean % finish in individual challenges, single-season

Highest MPF, individual challenges - season

By: Jeff Pitman | Last updated: June 19, 2024

92.5%

Joe Anglim, S30: Worlds Apart

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MPF, single-season leaders (minimum 4 challenges)
Rank		Season	MPF	ChA
1	Joe Anglim	S30: Worlds Apart	92.5%	4
2	Tasha Fox	S28: Cagayan	88.0%	6
3	Ozzy Lusth	S13: Cook Islands	87.8%	8
4	Mike Holloway	S30: Worlds Apart	87.7%	11
5	Frannie Marin	Survivor 44	86.5%	5
6	Dawn Meehan	S23: South Pacific	86.3%	4
7	Ricard Foyé	Survivor 41	85.7%	7
8	Lex van den Berghe	S3: Africa	84.9%	11
9	Yau-Man Chan	S14: Fiji	82.4%	9
10	Ozzy Lusth	S23: South Pacific	82.3%	5
11	Kim Spradlin	S24: One World	82.2%	12
12	Rupert Boneham	S7: Pearl Islands	81.9%	4
13	Tom Westman	S10: Palau	81.6%	10
14	Colby Donaldson	S2: The Australian Outback	81.5%	11
15	Alec Merlino	S37: David vs. Goliath	81.5%	4
16	Terry Deitz	S12: Panama-Exile Island	81.1%	12
17	Bruce Perrault	Survivor 45	80.8%	5
18	Brian Heidik	S5: Thailand	80.5%	9
19	Joe Anglim	S31: Cambodia	80.3%	8
20	Boston Rob Mariano	S8: All-Stars	79.8%	10
21	Ian Rosenberger	S10: Palau	79.1%	10
22	Keith Nale	S29: San Juan del Sur	79.0%	11
23	Chrissy Hofbeck	S35: Heroes v Healers v Hustlers	78.9%	11
24	Jason Siska	S16: Micronesia	78.5%	4
25	Bob Crowley	S17: Gabon	78.3%	9
26	David Wright	S38: Edge of Extinction	77.5%	5
27	Austin Li Coon	Survivor 45	76.5%	9
28	Fabio Birza	S21: Nicaragua	76.29%	10
29	J.T. Thomas	S18: Tocantins	76.28%	10
30	Lindsay Dolashewich	Survivor 42	76.25%	8
31	Ami Cusack	S9: Vanuatu	75.41%	8
32	Domenick Abbate	S36: Ghost Island	75.40%	10

Complete through Survivor 46. Click contestant name/picture to view their contestant page.

What do we mean by MPF?

MPF, or Mean Percent Finish in individual challenges, is a simple measurement of individual challenge proficiency. Someone with a 1.000 MPF has finished first in every individual challenge in which they've competed. Finishing in the middle of the pack every time will net you a score around 50%. And so on down from there.

While simply totalling challenge wins is a handy shortcut, we feel this is a more comprehensive measurement of challenge success. Maybe someone is good at standing still, or holding balls aloft, but can't solve a puzzle to save their life. That may be hidden when comparing challenge performance by simply adding up challenges won, or even calculating challenge win percentage. In contrast, MPF includes the challenges the contestant didn't win. So there may be a few surprises. For example, despite Kelly Wiglesworth memorably ending Borneo with a five-challenge win streak, that performance is only the 61st-best overall (!), because she under-performed in several early post-merge challenges (she still makes the career leaderboard, though). We've added MPF totals to all the single-season scoring data, so if you don't see someone you expect here, check that season's complete scores.

Single-season data summary: Over the first 32 seasons, there have been 261 contestants who appeared in four or more individual challenges in a season. Of those, the average MPF score is 0.563, and the standard deviation is 0.140. There have been 41 contestants with an MPF at least one SD above the mean (greater than 0.703), who would be strong performers. Conversely, there have been 50 contestants whose MPF has been lower than one SD below the mean (less than 0.423); they fared particularly poorly. (There are six contestants at > 2 SDs above the mean, three at < 2 SDs below the mean, mainly because it's difficult to get a really low % Finish.)

Glossary:

MPF: Mean % finish - mean of all % finishes in individual challenges. Essentially how close the contestant comes to winning any random challenge (1.00 is a win; 1/[# of participants] is last place).
ChA: Challenge Appearances. The number of challenges in which they competed.