Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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Last night my DVR decided it didn’t want to record Jeopardy! – which was particularly frustrating, because a certain post of mine had been getting a lot of attention.
Also, don’t worry, I’m not taking a selfie here.
That post was my list of the biggest one-day totals in Jeopardy! history, a list Andrew had a good chance of making this evening. Heading into Final, here were the scores:
Andrew Pau (2x) |
Hilary Hinzmann |
Lindsey Ziegler |
40,000 | 6,800 | 5,600 |
Andrew ran four different categories, a feat I can’t recall seeing before. Two of those contained Daily Doubles.
And had Andrew wanted to maximize his take on that Antepenultimate Wager, he could have gone for as much as $24,199, since Lindsey could have nabbed that last 2,000 clue.
Andrew | Hilary | Lindsey | |||
39,400 | 4,800 | 5,600 | |||
24,199 | 9,600 | ||||
15,201 | 15,200 | ||||
That would have put him at $63,599 heading into Final. And imagine if we took into account that $4,600 he left behind on that softball category CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS…
What actually happened
Andrew | Hilary | Lindsey | |||
40,000 | 6,800 | 5,600 | |||
0 | 6,700 | 1,201 | |||
40,000 | 13,500 | 4,399 | |||
min | max | min | max | ||
26,399 | 4,400 | 2,401 | 3,199 | ||
1,200 |
I guess Andrew was content with a nice, round number, or he’s playing by Alex Jacob’s rules (which is a smart way to go, if you want to preserve your brain energy).
In any event, he has now won 3 games and broken the six-figure mark with $105,202.
The Final Jeopardy! clue
18th CENTURY BRITISH SCIENTISTS |
IN 1705 HE WROTE, “AND, IF IT SHOULD THEN RETURN, WE SHALL HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT BUT THE REST MUST RETURN TOO” |
Correct response: | Show> |
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