We’d expect that to have happened once, but it’s actually happened three times. So they appear to have an advantage compared to if everyone had the same chances.Īnother way to think of it is that if everyone were equal and had a 1/15 chance of winning, we’d expect the contestant who won the first challenge to win the whole season 16*(1/15) = 16/15 times because there have been 16 seasons. And the p-value was small enough (.0865) to provide pretty strong evidence that people who win the first episode have a probability of winning the season that is greater than 1/15. Clay tested the hypothesis that the probability is equal to 1/15. Most seasons have 16 contestants, so if all of the contestants were on equal footing after the first episode, then the remaining contestants would each have a 1/15 (1/15=.06667) chance of winning the whole season. However, if a designer does win the first competition, all is not lost.Īs Clay discovered, designers who win the first challenge are more likely to win the season than if everyone had equal probability. Out of 16 seasons, only three designers have won both the first challenge and the whole season, which comes to a success rate of less than 20% (this held true for Season 17). On the surface, it appears that not winning the first challenge is better. There are two ways to look at the first question. Is it actually better to lose the first round? But this still led to some interesting results. The same was true for there being a different number of contestants in some seasons. Because Season 17 was currently running at the time of our analysis (it concluded on June 13, 2019), we only used data from the first 16 seasons of the show.Ĭlay offered that because it’s a competition where one person’s outcome impacts every other designer’s outcome, it was tricky to do more than some basic tests. Our source data came from Wikipedia, which charts the wins, losses, and eliminations for each season. So I teamed up with resident statistician He created a data table that tracked each designer who won the first episode, that designer’s final appearance, total number of episodes, rank, and whether or not the designer made it to the finale.
I thought it would be fun to do some analysis in JMP to find some answers. How often do winners NOT win their first round until later in the season?.How does an early win relate to a contestant’s ultimate success on the show?.And Dmitry Sholokhov, who won both Season 10 and All-Stars Season 4, didn’t have his first challenge win until episode 9. For example, Season 6 winner Irina Shabayeva didn’t have a challenge win until episode 5. I noticed that some these season winners didn’t get their first win until late in the competition. The ultimate winner of 14 rounds receives a huge prize package and, hopefully, a significant career boost.īecause my wife has watched many of the seasons in reverse order, we already knew who a lot of the season winners were before she got to the older episodes. For the final round, three or four designers are tasked with creating a collection, which are then presented in the final runway show, usually at New York Fashion Week. The designer with the lowest score is eliminated. The designer with the highest score wins the round. Afterward, the completed creations are presented to the judges in a runway show. On a typical season, 16 designers are given a challenge, a set budget for fabric (“Thank you, Mood!”), and one or two days to create a garment. Therefore, I have seen more than a handful of episodes. This year for her birthday, we even went to New York Fashion Week to see some actual shows.
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She has since watched every single episode of the TV series, including Project Runway Junior and Project Runway All-Stars. As a Project Runway fan, I wondered: Is it better to win early or later? How does an early win relate to a contestant’s ultimate success? How often do winners NOT win their first round until later in the season? (Photo courtesy of Marsha Alford)A few years ago, my wife started watching Project Runway and quickly became hooked.
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