How the Sodas bracket works
Soda tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Coca-Cola or Pepsi? Dr Pepper or Sprite? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
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. Entrants are drawn at random each time, so an early upset in one run may never happen in the next. 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 Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr Pepper and Sprite.
Coca-Cola
The original
Pepsi
The choice of a new generation
Dr Pepper
23 flavors
Sprite
Lemon-lime
Mountain Dew
Do the Dew
A&W Root Beer
Creamy classic
Ginger Ale
Canada Dry or Schweppes
Fanta Orange
Fruity & bubbly
7UP
Lemon-lime
Cream Soda
Vanilla sweetness
Crush
Orange soda
Cherry Coke
Cherry-flavored cola
Sunkist
Orange soda
Diet Coke
Zero calorie cola
Mello Yello
Citrus soda
Birch Beer
Regional favorite
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 Sodas brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Sprite
31W - 13L · won 2 brackets
70%
win rate
- 2
Coca-Cola
25W - 11L · won 4 brackets
69%
win rate
- 3
Pepsi
24W - 13L · won 2 brackets
65%
win rate
- 4
A&W Root Beer
20W - 13L · won 2 brackets
61%
win rate
- 5
7UP
17W - 14L · won 1 bracket
55%
win rate
- 6
Cream Soda
15W - 14L · won 1 bracket
52%
win rate
- 7
Cherry Coke
15W - 14L · won 1 bracket
52%
win rate
- 8
Dr Pepper
16W - 15L
52%
win rate
- 9
Ginger Ale
14W - 14L · won 1 bracket
50%
win rate
- 10
Fanta Orange
13W - 15L
46%
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.
- 3Watch for the choice you keep beating reluctantly. That is usually the sign you should undo and reconsider the pick before it.
Sodas bracket FAQ
How many choices are in the Sodas 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?
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Mountain Dew, A&W Root Beer, Ginger Ale, Fanta Orange, 7UP, Cream Soda, Crush and Cherry Coke, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the soda tier list take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
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.
How did everyone else rank these choices?
Every completed bracket feeds the Sodas 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 build my own sodas bracket?
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.