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Comp beasts vs block survivors: which Big Brother players actually score in fantasy?

Nov 13, 2026 · 3 min read

Every fantasy draft room has the same argument. Do you take the comp beast who'll rack up HOH and veto points, or the quiet social player who might float to the end?

We scored every houseguest from BB2 to BB28 with our league rules, then let the numbers sort them. No hand-picking: a clustering algorithm grouped all 407 houseguest-seasons by how they played the weekly game, using four things: their share of the season's comp wins, how often they were nominated, how often they survived the block, and how long they lasted.

Four types fell out.

Archetype	Houseguests	Avg weekly-game points	Avg endgame points	Avg total	Winners
Comp beast	65	16.7	16.3	33.0	17
Block survivor	58	4.8	12.2	17.1	7
Under the radar	124	2.1	6.0	8.2	3
Early exit	160	−3.5	1.0	−2.5	0

Weekly-game points are what we call Game Score: HOH, veto, nominations, block survival. Endgame points are jury, Final HOH, jury votes, the win, runner-up and America's Favorite.

Comp beasts: the safest pick on the board

Comp beasts win about a fifth of their season's competitions and last almost to the end. Under our scoring they're the best fantasy assets by a distance: twice the points of the next group, and 17 of the 27 winners we scored, from Dan Gheesling (BB10) and Ian Terry (BB14) to Jag Bains (BB25) and Rick Devens (BB28).

The top weekly-game scorers here are the names you'd guess: Paul Abrahamian in BB19 (36), Janelle Pierzina in BB7 (35) and Jag (35).

Block survivors: the winners your team would have dropped

Block survivors win fewer comps and live on the block: they're nominated about twice as often as a comp beast and survive it three times as often. Their weekly-game line is thin (4.8 points on average). But seven winners are in this group: Dr. Will (BB2), Jun Song (BB4), Maggie Ausburn (BB6), Jordan Lloyd (BB11), Rachel Reilly (BB13), Taylor Hale (BB24) and Ashley Hollis (BB27).

The endgame is where they catch up. The median block-survivor winner scored just 6 weekly-game points, against 19 for a comp-beast winner. Their endgame haul is almost the same: 33 vs 37.

That's the whole draft lesson in two numbers. The weekly game separates these players. The endgame barely does.

Under the radar: low scores, three surprise winners

The biggest group is the one you forget: rarely nominated, rarely winning, gone somewhere in the back half. On average they're worth 8 points. But three winners live here: Adam Jasinski (BB9), Derrick Levasseur (BB16) and Nicole Franzel (BB18). Unlike the block survivors, they did score in the weekly game (a median of 15), just without dominating comps or sitting on the block.

Same player, different archetype

Archetypes describe a season, not a person. Paul Abrahamian is the clearest case: a block survivor in BB18 (the highest weekly-game score in that group, 23) and a comp beast in BB19 (the highest in that group, 36). He finished runner-up both times.

The draft lesson

If you want points every week, take the comp beast. It's the highest-floor pick on the board.
If you're drafting for the win, don't panic about a player who keeps landing on the block and keeps surviving. Seven winners looked exactly like that.
The under-the-radar player is the real gamble: usually a bust, occasionally a Derrick.

See how your favourites scored, season by season, on the all-time fantasy hub, or put Paul's BB18 next to his BB19.

Scored under BB28 rules. Social and drama categories can't be scored for past seasons, so they're left out. Archetypes come from k-means clustering; players near the edge of a group could reasonably sit in the next one.