Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

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Alex was on a real Italian kick tonight, huh?

Stew’s eking out the lead heading into Final tonight – which means he’ll have to go huge to cover Robert. Malavika could still play spoiler.

Stew Latwin (1x)	Malavika Jagannathan	Robert Wood
14,800	8,200	14,600

Tonight’s Final Jeopardy! category is:

HISTORIC TV

Here’s the card with my notes for tonight’s video:

First-order calculations

Robert has a huge range to start, but it’s going to contract soon.

Stew		Malavika		Robert
14,800		8,200		14,600
FIRST-ORDER		SECOND-ORDER		COVER ZERO
min	max	min	max	min	max
14,400		4,600	7,800	1,800	14,200
1,600

Second-order calculations

Nothing really in the way of mind games here, because Stew and Robert are so close and Malavika is a distant second.

Stew		Malavika		Robert
14,800		8,200		14,600
FIRST-ORDER		SECOND-ORDER		COVER ZERO
min	max	min	max	min	max
14,400		4,600	7,800	1,800	14,200
1,600

Zero wagers

Score differences:
Stew and Robert: 200
Stew and Malavika: 6,600
Robert and Malavika: 6,400

Stew		Malavika		Robert
14,800		8,200		14,600
FIRST-ORDER		SECOND-ORDER		COVER ZERO
min	max	min	max	min	max
14,400		6,800	7,800	1,800	6,400
1,600					12,800
	200				14,200

Malavika’s 6,800 is to cover the possible (if unlikely) 199 wager out of Stew.

What actually happened

Stew		Malavika		Robert
14,800		8,200		14,600
14,401		7,000		14,500
29,201		15,200		100
min	max	min	max	min	max
14,401		6,801	7,799	1,801	6,399
1,601					12,799
	199				14,199

Stew has now won 2 games and $42,601.

The Final Jeopardy! clue

HISTORIC TV

AN AUTHENTIC BELL H-13 SIOUX AIR AMBULANCE WAS USED IN THE OPENING CREDITS OF THIS TELEVISION SERIES

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