Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Thursday, April 21, 2016
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Andrew Pau is going for his fifth victory – and the end of our Streak of Futility.
As a bonus, in the video I get to use an accent that has given me problems in the past.
He’s in good shape heading into Final, although both challengers can catch him:
|
Andrew Pau (4x) |
Beth Dunn |
JonPaul Guinn |
| 20,400 | 14,200 | 12,200 |
Once again, we had a bad Daily Double wager toward the end of Double Jeopardy!; Beth could be in much better position here. Instead, she’s going to have to defend against JonPaul with this category:
| CITY NAME ORIGINS |
First-order calculations
Not too much to see here; JonPaul has to go all in (but just barely).
| Andrew |
Beth |
JonPaul | |||
| 20,400 | 14,200 | 12,200 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 8,000 | 10,200* | 200* | |||
| 4,000 | 1,800 | ||||
What actually happened
| Andrew | Beth | JonPaul | |||
| 20,400 | 14,200 | 12,200 | |||
| 8,001 | 14,100 | 5,000 | |||
| 12,399 | 100 | 7,200 | |||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 8,001 | 8,199 | 14,200 | 12,200 | ||
| 4,001 | 1,799 | ||||
Beth could have won it had she brought a larger total into Final. In any case, Andrew has broken the curse and has a five-day total of $136,201. Congrats!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| CITY NAME ORIGINS |
| THIS CITY THAT’S HOME TO AN NFL TEAM IS NAMED FOR AN 18th CENTURY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER |
[spoiler]What is Pittsburgh?[/spoiler]
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