The Amazing Race 10: Final Rankings

Written by Citanul from the blog Statistically Speaking - The Amazing Race on 23 Jul 2008
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For an explanation of the rankings, see here.

Episode Rankings
(previous episode's positions given in brackets)

Teams in finish order
1) Tyler & James (3)
2) Rob & Kimberly (1)
3) Lyn & Karlyn (2)

Teams ranked by performance throughout the episode
1) Tyler & James (2)
2) Rob & Kimberly (1)
3) Lyn & Karlyn (3)

Overall Rankings

Teams ranked by average finish position
1) Tyler & James (1)
2) Rob & Kimberly (2)
3) Lyn & Karlyn (4)

Teams ranked by average episode performance
1) Tyler & James (1)
2) Rob & Kimberly (2)
4) Lyn & Karlyn (4)

Roadblock Record
(not including Episode 7's unseen roadblock)

Lyn: 5, Karlyn: 7
Rob: 6, Kimberly: 5
Tyler: 5, James: 6

Conclusions

The obvious question at the end of any season of TAR is, "Did the best team win?". Tyler & James were the best team when it came to finishing each leg well. They won three legs, which is more than anyone else, and on average finished better than any other team with the exception of Peter & Sarah, who at one stage had a better track record than the models.

When it came to their performance throughout the episode, Tyler & James weren't always the best-performing team as they had a tendency to fall behind early on and then catch up, rather than have a consistent performance throughout the episode. However, by the end of the race they were overall the best-performing team.

So it's probably a fair assessment that the "best" team did win this season of the Amazing Race.

6 Comments

batchick
23 Jul 2008 06:01

Interesting, so it was a pretty fair outcome in the end then. How is it that Lyn and Karlyn ended up one more roadblock than the other teams? Don't remember them pulling a switch of blocker or anything.

Sana Lwam
23 Jul 2008 06:06

Sana Lwam
23 Jul 2008 06:11

sorry maan Citanul for the blank...

For me Tyler and James were the beter team in the last 3 and I was voting for them. Lyn and Karyln were not always in good form. The bickering of Rob and Kim was so irritating. Tyler and James deserved to win!!!

Citanul
23 Jul 2008 06:17

>>How is it that Lyn and Karlyn ended up one more roadblock than the other teams?<<

There was the episode with the intersection where Tyler & James and Rob & Kimberly had to work together and did the fast forward, meaning that both teams missed out on that episode's roadblock.

ngwana
23 Jul 2008 06:31

I liked the models, I'm happy they have won. Winning TAR was good for their drug recovery.

batchick
24 Jul 2008 00:43

Oh, yeah Thanks, Cit.

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