Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Friday, April 22, 2016
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Andrew Pau broke our 5xer drought last night… will he break our super-champ drought Friday?
Michael had a costly miss on that “Rio de la Plat” clue toward the end, even though it was worth just $800.
Andrew Pau (5x) |
Amy Hart |
Michael Koh |
17,200 | 9,400 | 17,000 |
Perhaps even more critical to his current position, however, was what I’d consider an under-bet on that Daily Double in “Q” NOT FOLLOWED BY U. With such a limited set of possible answers, and the benefit of a priming clue, I’d be hitting that up for everything I had every time.
Tonight’s Final Jeopardy! category is:
19th CENTURY BRITS |
First-order calculations
Here’s where things stand after the first order:
Andrew |
Amy |
Michael | |||
17,200 | 9,400 | 17,000 | |||
FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
min | max | min | max | min | max |
16,800 | 5,800 | 9,000 | 1,800 | 16,600 | |
1,600 | |||||
The scores are such that there’s no real need for mind games.
Zero wagers
Score differences:
Andrew and Michael: 200
Andrew and Amy: 7,800
Michael and Amy: 7,600
Andrew |
Amy |
Michael | |||
17,200 | 9,400 | 17,000 | |||
FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
min | max | min | max | min | max |
16,800 | 7,600 | 9,000 | 1,800 | 7,600 | |
1,600 | |||||
200 | |||||
Then we add a dollar to the minimum wagers, and subtract a dollar from the maximum wagers.
What actually happened
Andrew | Amy | Michael | |||
17,200 | 9,400 | 17,000 | |||
16,801 | 9,150 | 3,000 | |||
34,001 | 250 | 20,000 | |||
min | max | min | max | min | max |
16,801 | 7,601 | 8,999 | 1,801 | 7,599 | |
1,601 | |||||
199 |
And the $200 lead heading into Final turns out to be the difference for Andrew, whose 6-game total is up to $170,202. Congratulations!
A good game from our challengers, and a good week in general. Have a great weekend!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
19th CENTURY BRITS |
IN MAY 1810 DURING ONE OF HIS MORE FAMOUS EXPLOITS, HE EMPLOYED THE BREASTSTROKE |
Correct response: | Show> |
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CHris Foster has posted on his Youtube page a quite rare, albeit in black and white, 1974-75 syndicated nighttime Art Fleming hosted episode of J!