How the 90s TV Shows bracket works
Rank 90s TV shows without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Friends or Seinfeld? The Sopranos or The X-Files? — and after 23 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. By the end you have ranked all 24 without ever having to look at more than two at a time.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 24-slot size (Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 24 shows in the field. 24 is not a power of two, so 8 of them draw a first-round bye — spread evenly across the draw rather than handed to whoever happens to land at the top of it. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
23 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 248 matchups
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-3 minutes start to finish.
All 24 entrants
All 24 entrants are listed below, including Friends, Seinfeld, The Sopranos and The X-Files.
Friends
1994-2004
Seinfeld
1989-1998
The Sopranos
1999-2007
The X-Files
1993-2002
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997-2003
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990-1996
The Simpsons
1989-present
Twin Peaks
1990-1991
South Park
1997-present
Law & Order
1990-present
ER
1994-2009
Frasier
1993-2004
Boy Meets World
1993-2000
Saved by the Bell
1989-1993
Dawson's Creek
1998-2003
That '70s Show
1998-2006
Will & Grace
1998-2006
The Nanny
1993-1999
Home Improvement
1991-1999
Full House
1987-1995
Everybody Loves Raymond
1996-2005
The West Wing
1999-2006
Oz
1997-2003
Sex and the City
1998-2004
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 24 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 1 completed 90s TV Shows brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4W - 0L · won 1 bracket
100%
win rate
- 2
That '70s Show
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 3
The Sopranos
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 4
Full House
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 5
Twin Peaks
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 6
Dawson's Creek
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 7
Home Improvement
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 8
The West Wing
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 9
Friends
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
- 10
The Simpsons
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 24 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
90s TV Shows bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the 90s TV Shows bracket?
The pool holds 24 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 23 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 24, Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 8 entrants start with a first-round bye, spread evenly through the draw. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 24 slots.
Which shows are included?
Friends, Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, South Park, Law & Order, ER and Frasier, plus 12 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank 90s TV shows take?
About 2-3 minutes — 23 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
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 show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 23 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 24 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the 90s TV Shows community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 24 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
What if a show I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 24 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.