Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2002887-20180224175503/@comment-2002887-20180302013239

I've been asked this several times why I don't have Francesca on the bottom and Sandra on the top. The Sandra two time winner best player argument makes more sense to me than the Francesca argument because we have a much bigger sample size for winners who have played more than once than we do for first boots that have played more than once. Aside from Francesca, only one other person has been a first boot at some point and returned for another season and that was Tina Wesson, who is also a winner. So I dissected the circumstances of both of Francesca's first boots. The first time she was in the minority and for all we know if that vote goes 3-3-3 or 4-4-1 Francesca may survive the revote because Rob was targeting Kristina. However, Phillip's vote did Francesca in. Then the second time they bring Francesca back on the same tribe with two people responsible for voting her out and they don't have any positive history with her since she was a first boot. Cochran, Dawn, Corinne, and Malcolm opted to keep Phillip a goat and his ally Andrea over a perceived threat Francesca. It worked for Phillip and to be fair Caramoan was his stronger season and that's why I have Phillip ranked higher than some others would. Corinne and Malcolm's games suffered though because they voted out Francesca over Andrea, allowing the core four of Phillip Andrea Cochran and Dawn to form later on.

Tldr Francesca had some bad luck both her seasons so I gave her the benefit of the doubt over some more useless or disastrous first and early boots, but she's clearly a bad player because no matter how I frame it there's no ignoring her awful Survivor record and I still put her reasonably low.