Track Your Knives Ep 8

Track Your Knives Ep 8

From Pack Your Knives by Count The Dings

May 1, 2026 · 49 min

About this episode

The episode analyzes Restaurant Wars and discusses Power Rankings and Fantasy Leagues in Top Chef.

This week’s Track Your Knives starts out with a deep dive of Restaurant Wars analysis. With 23 seasons now, there’s plenty of data to break down! In the land of Power Rankings, Carly and four other players kick butt by correctly placing the elimination chef as the most likely to be eliminated. Kendra is still ahead of Carly, but Carly’s coming for her! While no one got a perfect score, we call out those who still did well this week for Power Rankings. On top of that, we get into the interpretation of Power Rankings heading into Restaurant Wars: did those who interspersed teams’ chefs among their Power Rankings do better or worse than those who ranked the teams in two separate blocks? Carly gets another bragging right and Kendra calls out which chefs are earning the most points in Fantasy Leagues. Before wrapping up, we call out the leaders in the different Pack Your Knives Fantasy Leagues. As always, enter your scores each week before the episode airs on ⁠⁠find-topchef.com⁠⁠ and become a subscriber on ⁠⁠packyourknives.com⁠⁠ to get additional data-driven insights on Top Chef. Follow us on Instagram: ⁠@find_topchef⁠ and ⁠@carly.sue.bear⁠ Subscribe to the PYK…

People in this episode

Host: Carly

Topics covered

  • Restaurant Wars
  • Power Rankings
  • Fantasy Leagues
  • Top Chef analysis
  • elimination chef
  • data-driven insights

Keywords

  • Restaurant Wars
  • Power Rankings
  • Top Chef
  • Fantasy Leagues
  • elimination chef
  • data analysis

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