The pawn tax: Big Brother's most-nominated houseguests, in fantasy points
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In our fantasy scoring, every nomination costs you: −2 for going up at the nomination ceremony, −3 for being named the replacement after a veto. Every time a nominee survives eviction, they earn +2 back (+3 if nobody voted against them).
So what happens to the houseguests who basically lived on the block? We scored BB2 through BB28 and pulled the most-nominated seasons.
| Houseguest | Season | Placed | Nominations | Block survivals | Fantasy total | Season rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Clawson | BB15 | 3rd | 9 | 7 | 10 | 6th |
| Victoria Rafaeli | BB16 | 3rd | 9 | 4 | 1 | 10th |
| Felicia Cannon | BB25 | 4th | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6th |
| John McGuire | BB17 | 4th | 8 | 2 | 12 | 5th |
| Keanu Soto | BB27 | 5th | 8 | 1 | 22 | 4th |
| Taylor Brown | BB28 | 2nd | 6 | 6 | 23 | 3rd |
| Erika Landin | BB7 | 2nd | 6 | 5 | 30 | 3rd |
Nominations and survivals are as our history grids count them (see the note on Victoria below).
Spencer paid it off
Nine nominations is −18 or worse before anything else happens. Spencer Clawson survived seven of those trips, which pays most of it back, and finished BB15 6th on fantasy points. The pawn tax is real, but a pawn who keeps surviving is a decent pick.
Victoria didn't
Victoria Rafaeli's nominations look the same on paper, but she survived the eviction vote only four times. Several of her trips to the block ended another way in BB16's Battle of the Block weeks, which our scoring doesn't pay as a survival. Net: 1 fantasy point for a third-place finish, 10th in her season.
A note on her count: BB16's Big Brother Rewind reset and replayed a whole week. She was nominated in the original and in the replay. Our grids score that week once, so we count 9; count both and she reaches 10.
The comp-winning pawns do best
Keanu Soto (BB27) was nominated eight times and survived the vote only once, yet he's the highest-scoring player on this list outside the finalists. He paid the tax by saving himself: three veto wins, each used on himself, plus two Block Buster wins and an HOH. America's Favorite added 5 more at the end.
Finalists who wore it
Two runners-up on this list, BB28's Taylor Brown and BB7's Erika Landin, were nominated six times each and survived almost every time. Both finished 3rd in their seasons on fantasy points.
How much should a nomination cost?
We tested it. Drop the penalty to −1 and heavily nominated players (five or more nominations) finish in their season's top five 64% of the time. At our −2, it's 61%. Raise it to −3 and it falls to 50%, and Victoria drops to 14th. The season's top scorer barely changes either way. The full numbers are in our scoring experiments.
Explore every season on the all-time fantasy hub.
Scored under BB28 rules. Social and drama categories can't be scored for past seasons, so they're left out.
Fantasy Through BB History
Every season from BB2 to BB28, scored with our rules. See the numbers yourself.
Sources (1)
- “Fantasy Through Big Brother History,” Big Brother Fantasy, accessed November 13, 2026, https://bigbrotherfantasy.com/bb-history/fantasy.
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