Phish.net ratings database · the full reunion tournament
Year vs Year Battle Royale · All 16 Reunion Years
Every year from 2009 through 2025 enters. Each year fights every other year: the two years’ top-ten shows go head to head, seed against seed, and whoever wins more of the ten rounds takes the match. 120 matchups, one champion. (2020 is left out, it played only 7 shows before the pandemic and cannot field a top ten.)
Every Phish year from 2009 to 2025 is in the tournament. Each year battles every other year, one on one, lining up their ten best shows to see who wins more spots. 120 battles decide the champion. 2020 is skipped because the band only played 7 shows that year before the pandemic.
Frozen snapshot: ratings captured 2026-07-13 CDT from Phish.net, full hidden precision used to seed each round. Community averages drift over time.
Champion
2015, undefeated at 15–0
Against the entire reunion era, 2015 still wins every match and takes 137 of 150 rounds. The Baker’s Dozen year 2017 surges to second (14–1), its only loss to the champion. The real drama is at the bottom: the three years with the highest single peaks, 2025, 2023, and 2019, all sink into the lower half, because a huge best-night cannot carry a thin top ten through a full round-robin.
Against every reunion year, 2015 still beats them all and wins 137 of 150 spots. The Baker’s Dozen year 2017 jumps to second, losing only to 2015. And the surprise: the years with the single best shows, 2025, 2023, and 2019, all fall into the bottom half, because one amazing show cannot win a whole tournament.
Final standings · all 16 years
Sorted by match wins, then rounds won, then top-10 average. Rounds won counts individual seed victories out of 150 (fifteen matchups times ten seeds). Note 2024 won more total rounds (128) than 2017 (126) but one fewer match, so it seeds third.
The matchup matrix · all 120 head-to-heads
row year won
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tie
each cell = row year’s round score. Click any cell for the seed-by-seed breakdown. Scroll sideways for the full grid.
Storylines
- 2015 answers the whole era. Fifteen matches, fifteen wins, 137 of 150 rounds. Its narrowest escape is 6–4 over 2017; everything else it wins by four rounds or more. No reunion year has an answer for the Magnaball peak plus eleven nights over 4.5.
- 2017 and 2024 are the co-aces behind the throne. 2017 goes 14–1, 2024 goes 13–2, and they split their own meeting 7–3 for 2017. 2024 actually wins two more total rounds across the tournament, but match record seeds 2017 second.
- 2013 is the quiet overachiever at 12–3. The Tahoe-and-Hampton year outranks its reputation, losing only to the top three and beating everything below.
- The peak trap is brutal. 2025 owns the single highest-rated show of the era (4.642) yet finishes eighth at 7–6–2. 2023 holds the second-highest peak (4.634) and lands thirteenth. 2019’s Alpine peak (4.626) leaves it fifteenth at 1–14. One transcendent night is nearly worthless in a contest scored ten seeds deep.
- 2011 keeps punching up. At 10–4–1 it finishes sixth, beating 2013 in their head-to-head (6–4) and edging 2025 again (6–4). The second comeback year remains underrated.
- 2009 is the floor. Zero wins in fifteen tries, and just 10 of 150 rounds. The first months back could not yet match what the band would become.
- 2015 beat every single year. Fifteen wins, no losses, 137 of 150 spots. Its closest game was still a win over 2017.
- 2017 and 2024 are the next best. 2017 went 14 and 1, 2024 went 13 and 2. Very strong years.
- 2013 was better than people think, finishing fourth.
- Best-show does not equal best-year. 2025 has the single best show ever of this era but came in eighth. 2023 and 2019 also had huge single shows and finished near the bottom. You need many great shows, not one.
- 2011 keeps surprising, beating both 2013 and 2025 in their games.
- 2009 finished last, with no wins. The first months back were not their best.
The takeaway
Open the tournament to the whole reunion era and the verdict only hardens. 2015 is the untouchable champion, 2017 and 2024 are the clear co-runners-up, and the middle sorts almost perfectly by top-ten depth rather than by peak. The lesson the bigger field teaches loudly: a round-robin rewards a deep stack of great nights, and it punishes years that spent everything on one legendary show. 2025’s SPAC 7/27 is the best single night of the era and it still leaves 2025 in the middle of the pack.
With every year in the tournament, the answer gets clearer. 2015 is the champion, 2017 and 2024 are right behind, and the rest line up by how deep their great shows go, not by their single best night. The big lesson: to win, a year needs a whole stack of great shows. Having the one best show is not enough, which is why 2025 only finished in the middle.
See also the full reunion-era year leaderboard (2009–2025) with the confidence-adjusted metric, and the earlier duels
2012 vs 2015 and
2010 & 2011 vs 2025.
Source: Phish.net Top Rated per year, community average, minimum 3 votes. Captured 2026-07-13.