The "No jury" column shows the top contestant performances without considering jury votes — essentially challenge prowess plus tribal council skill. (In other words, "No jury" = ChW + wTCR .)

To answer the question: Who did the best, ignoring the whims and terrible taste of those crazy jurors? (Note: Russell Hantz, who claims there's "a flaw in the game" because the jurors he bullied never voted for him, ends up way down at #61 in Samoa and #99 in Heroes vs. Villains. So he wasn't all that great at the non-juror-coddling aspects of the game, either.) We added the "finish" column to remind you where that player actually ended up.

*Artefact alert: We told you about the problem with Paschal in the Marquesas scoring (that he didn't receive any votes when he was eliminated by the purple rock). Without that artificially high wTCR, it's unlikely he'd be anywhere near as high as his ranking above.

**Artefact alert, redux: The artificially high score also extends to people eliminated by F4 fire, since they often leave without having been voted against. But what can you do? Survivor chose violence.

• 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 Hero Challenges count as half a challenge (and half a win). Individual challenge wins count as a full point.
• wTCR: weighted Tribal Council Ratio. Calculated as the ratio of VFB (times Voting For the person Booted) to VAP (Votes Against the Player), while also scaling to a uniform number of TC appearances (TCA). 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 receivng zero VAP to just one VAP, 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% (Jury Vote Percent) high scores.