S2: The Australian Outback boxscores
Ep. 9: "Honeymoon or Not?"
By Jeff Pitman | Published: February 20, 2015
S2: The Australian Outback boxscores Episode 9

Filmed: November 16-18, 2000 |  Aired: March 29, 2001
RC: Colby and Jerri win
IC: Nick wins
Jerri out, 6-2

 

  • Reward challenge: "Double Play" - Colby and Jerri win a fun-filled first date at the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Immunity challenge: "Hanging in the Balance" - Nick wins, saving himself.
  • Voted out: Jerri, 6-2 over Elisabeth.
Episode 9 scoring notes
  • Ah, the first post-merge team challenge in Survivor history. As with tribal challenges, wins are divided by number of people on the team, so half a point each for Colby and Jerri.
  • Also, it's interesting to look back and re-discover that Jerri's boot, which was the first non-Pagonging post-merge boot, was Keith's idea, and done almost entirely because he didn't like her. Not really for some broader strategy, since Colby was shown saying it was the wrong move to make. (Although Tina did obviously agree to it.)
Vote count:
  • Jerri received 6 votes, from Tina, Colby, Keith, Elisabeth, Rodger, and Nick (voted out, 6-2).
  • Elisabeth received 2 vote, from Amber and Jerri.
Episode 9 boxscore - challenges

Reward Challenge Immunity Challenge  
Contestant ChW ChA ChW ChA Plc % Fin MPF
Amber - 0.5 - 1 t-3 0.69 72%
Keith - 0.5 - 1 t-5 0.31 66%
Jerri 0.5 0.5 - 1 t-5 0.31 62%
Tina - 0.5 - 1 t-5 0.31 61%
Nick - 0.5 1 1 1 1.00 58%
Colby 0.5 0.5 - 1 2 0.88 49%
Rodger - 0.5 - 1 t-3 0.69 47%
Elisabeth - 0.5 - 1 t-5 0.31 39%
Episode 9 boxscore - Tribal

Tribal council stats Overall scores
Contestant VFB VAP TotV TCA SurvSc SurvAv
Tina 1 - 8 1 1.10 7.59
Nick 1 - 8 1 0.93 6.17
Keith 1 - 8 1 1.25 5.93
Amber 0 - 8 1 0.76 5.26
Rodger 1 - 8 1 0.69 4.77
Colby 1 - 8 1 1.16 4.20
Elisabeth 1 2 8 1 0.75 3.77
Jerri 0 6 8 1 0.97 3.26
Alicia - - - - 0.68 2.53
Jeff - - - - 0.96 2.67
Skupin - - - - 1.21 2.84
Kimmi - - - - 0.73 1.97
Mitchell - - - - 1.00 2.73
Maralyn - - - - 0.93 1.95
Kel - - - - -0.21 0.25
Debb - - - - -0.88 0.00
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.

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