Season 11 of American Ninja Warrior kicks off on Wednesday, May 29 on NBC. With football entering the doldrums of summer before Training Camps start, Ninja Warrior should become your go-to weekly show for athletic competition. Two years ago, I devised a scoring system to rank the competitors on American Ninja Warrior based on their current and past performance. The scoring system is intended to rank athletes based on their past accomplishments and is not a predictive metric for future success. As we have seen countless times in Ninja Warrior competitions, sometimes even the top athletes can get derailed by a slight mis-step or a slip of the hand.