How the Pizza Toppings bracket works
Pizza toppings tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Pepperoni or Mushrooms? Italian Sausage or Extra Cheese? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Comparing two choices is far easier than sorting 16 of them at once, which is why the finished list tends to survive a second look.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 16 choices in the field. Because the draw is shuffled, two people playing the same bracket rarely face the same matchups. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including Pepperoni, Mushrooms, Italian Sausage and Extra Cheese.
Pepperoni
Classic meat topping
Mushrooms
Sliced or diced
Italian Sausage
Crumbled or sliced
Extra Cheese
More mozzarella
Green Peppers
Bell peppers
Onions
Red or white
Black Olives
Sliced
Bacon
Crispy pieces
Pineapple
The controversial one
Ham
Diced or sliced
Jalapenos
Spicy kick
Spinach
Fresh or cooked
Fresh Basil
Classic Italian
Buffalo Chicken
Spicy chicken
BBQ Chicken
Sweet & smoky
Anchovies
Love 'em or hate 'em
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 16 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 15 completed Pizza Toppings brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Pepperoni
37W - 8L · won 7 brackets
82%
win rate
- 2
Extra Cheese
30W - 13L · won 2 brackets
70%
win rate
- 3
Italian Sausage
23W - 13L · won 2 brackets
64%
win rate
- 4
Ham
20W - 15L
57%
win rate
- 5
Bacon
17W - 14L · won 1 bracket
55%
win rate
- 6
Fresh Basil
15W - 15L
50%
win rate
- 7
Pineapple
13W - 15L
46%
win rate
- 8
Onions
12W - 14L · won 1 bracket
46%
win rate
- 9
BBQ Chicken
11W - 15L
42%
win rate
- 10
Mushrooms
10W - 14L · won 1 bracket
42%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Answer as if both options were in front of you and you could only eat one.
- 2The default run puts all 16 choices in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- 3Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Pizza Toppings bracket FAQ
How many choices are in the Pizza Toppings bracket?
The pool holds 16 choices. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which choices are included?
Pepperoni, Mushrooms, Italian Sausage, Extra Cheese, Green Peppers, Onions, Black Olives, Bacon, Pineapple, Ham, Jalapenos and Spinach, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the pizza toppings tier list take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a pizza toppings tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other choice grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two choices that never met. If you would rather place the choices into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community pizza toppings ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Pizza Toppings community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which choices are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own choices, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.