Wagering practice – A rematch of co-champions
Today’s example comes from Fred (now Catherine) Ramen’s second game in Season 14. Interestingly, he was only there because he had exactly half of Shawn’s score in their first game going into Final, enabling him to tie. We’ll talk about that scenario in Part Two, out later today.
What would you have wagered if you were Shawn? (The category was British Royalty.)
Click here for my thoughts!
(Thanks to the J! Archive)
Answers to Friday’s scenario:
(click to view as a slideshow)
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- (1/5) Larissa faces her fourth Final Jeopardy! from an unusual position: trailing. What should she wager?
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- (2/5) Normally, we’d begin by looking at her wagers against Sara; in this case, though, we’ll look at what she should do against Will. We’ll see that each of her wagers satisfies the appropriate criterion against Sara.
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- (3/5) Rule #1: Larissa needs to wager at least 5,200 to cover an all-in get by Will. Note that this will also cover a zero wager by the leader, Sara (Rule #3 against her).
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- (4/5) Rule #3: Larissa can wager up to 6,800 to stay at or above Will’s pre-Final total Note that this will also keep her above a “proper” wager by Sara (Rule #2 against her).
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- (5/5) So Larissa should wager between 5,200 and 6,800. Try to see if you can calculate the other wagers on your own!
This doesn’t affect anything wagering-related, but thanks to the “yearbook” of past ToC players they put up (link below) we now know that Fred Ramen has since become a woman named Catherine.
http://www.jeopardy.com/minisites/tocyearbook/#1998