Which Big Brother season was BB28 most like?
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Every season gets compared to the classics. "This is the new BB16." "Feels like BB6." We wanted an answer that wasn't a vibe, so we measured the shape of every season from BB2 to BB28 and asked which one sits closest to BB28.
How we measured "shape"
Five numbers per season, all from our week-by-week history grids:
- Comp spread: how much of the season's HOH, veto and Block Buster wins went to its two biggest winners. High means one or two people ran the comps.
- Veto use: how often the Power of Veto was actually used.
- Unanimous evictions: how often the house voted someone out without a single dissenting vote.
- Replacement nominee evicted: how often the person who went home was the one put up after the veto.
- Twist weeks: how many weeks carry a twist or double-eviction note in our grids.
Then we put every season on the same scale and measured the distance between each pair.
The answer: BB27
BB28's nearest neighbours:
| Rank | Season | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BB27 | 1.14 |
| 2 | BB17 | 1.45 |
| 3 | BB6 | 1.63 |
| 4 | BB13 | 1.65 |
| 5 | BB9 | 1.73 |
For scale, the typical distance between two seasons is 2.89, so BB27 is a genuinely close match. The least BB28-like seasons are BB2, BB22 and BB25.
| BB28 | BB27 | Typical season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two biggest comp winners' share | 33% | 37% | 38% |
| Veto used | 77% | 77% | 62% |
| Unanimous evictions | 15% | 17% | 36% |
| Replacement nominee evicted | 50% | 36% | 27% |
| Weeks with a twist note | 100% | 100% | 77% |
What made BB28 BB28
The replacement nominee kept going home. In half of BB28's evictions, the person evicted was the one named after the veto. Only BB7 (64%) and BB8 (55%) had a higher rate in our grids. In a three-nominee, Block Buster world that's a lot of late-week target-switching.
The votes were split. Only 15% of BB28's evictions were unanimous, the second-lowest rate after BB11 (11%). The typical season sits at 36%.
Nobody owned the comps. BB28's two biggest comp winners took a third of the wins, one of the lowest shares we measured.
BB27 shares almost all of that: the same veto use, a twist every week, split votes and spread-out comps. The one big difference is the backdoor-style eviction, where BB28 went further than the season before it.
Fantasy footnote
A season's shape changes what a fantasy roster needs. In a spread-out season like BB28, no single comp machine carries a team, and a houseguest who survives the block keeps paying. Under our scoring, BB28's runner-up Taylor Brown was nominated 6 times and survived the block 6 times, and finished 3rd in the season on points.
Put BB28 next to BB27 on the compare page, or open the BB28 fantasy page.
Scored under BB28 rules. "Shape" uses five measures from our history grids; a different set of measures would give a different neighbour list. The twist measure is rough: nine seasons have a note on every week.
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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