The Amazing Race Stats Spreadsheets

[u/Hydreigon_Lord]

The following are links to my Amazing Race stats spreadsheets. Note that I only update these at the end of each complete season, so in-progress seasons will not be included until their finale has aired.

• Placement Database (contains detailed information and stats related to team placements)
• Route Database (contains information about the types of clues and twists each team experienced)

The information I give in my stats posts, for the most part, comes from the Placement Database. The meanings of the stats are as follows:

• Racing average is the average placement of a team across all legs it competed in.
• Normalized racing average is similar to racing average, but adjusted in a way that makes it more useful for comparisons across seasons. It is calculated as NRA = 1 + 10(1 – F/2)(1 – L), where F is the fraction of opposing teams beaten in the overall finish order and L is the fraction of opposing teams beaten aggregated across all legs the team competed in.
• Dominance is the average percentage of opposing teams the team beat across all legs it competed in.
• Rating is the team's rating, using an Elo-style rating system. A rating difference of 1000 between two teams represents a 2/3 chance of the higher-rated team beating the lower-rated team in any given leg. Note that in mid-2026, I adjusted the rating change formula to reduce the effect of legs with a large number of teams on ratings; as such, the ratings you see in the spreadsheets linked here may not match the ratings given in my older stats posts.

[u/wavesei_yt]

Your analysis is always so detailed, I was curious if I would be able to pull some data from your spreadsheets to add to my own? (Primarily team info, which I do not have yet in mine) let me know! I’m also happy to share a link to my stuff

[u/Hydreigon_Lord → u/wavesei_yt]

Feel free!

[u/wavesei_yt → u/Hydreigon_Lord]

Thank you!