Best a-team characters

Captain H. M. "Howling Mad" Murdock wins 67% of its duels and tops The A-Team ranking ahead of Sergeant Bosco Albert "B.A." Baracus.

Murdock holds 1299 ELO points over 12 duels, edging out B.A. Baracus by 54 points. Baracus claims second place with 1245 ELO and a 61% win rate across 18 duels. Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith secures third at 1187 ELO, winning exactly half of his 16 duels. The sharpest drop appears between ranks 3 and 4, where a 126-point gap separates Hannibal from Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck, who sits at the bottom with 1061 ELO and a 21% win rate over 14 duels. The podium's tight clustering and Faceman's distant fourth position reveal a clear consensus among voters: the pilot and the muscle dominate fan preference, while the team's smooth-talking conman struggles to find traction. The relatively balanced duel counts across all four contenders suggest each team member has been tested thoroughly, yet the win rates tell the story of popularity in stark terms.

This ranking draws from 210 duels submitted by 47 players across all 4 team members, last updated on 12 October 2026. The vote remains open: head to VAINKEURZ to cast your own duels and shift the standings. Every matchup you judge reshapes the hierarchy and refines the community verdict on which A-Team member deserves the top spot.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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