Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Monday, September 12, 2016
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Let’s kick off Season 4 of The Final Wager!
A low-scoring game heading into Final.
|
Courtney Paulson (1x) |
David Gottdenker |
Annie Busiek |
| 5,100 | 9,600 | 10,800 |
Here’s our category:
| ASIAN ISLANDS |
Quick analysis tonight.
First-order calculations
| Courtney |
David |
Annie | |||
| 5,100 | 9,600 | 10,800 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 3,900* | 600 | 7,200 | 8,400 | ||
| 2,700 | 600 | ||||
Zero wagers
Score differences:
Annie and David: 1,200
Annie and Courtney: 5,700
David and Courtney: 4,500
| Courtney |
David |
Annie | |||
| 5,100 | 9,600 | 10,800 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 4,500* | 2,400 | 4,500 | 8,400 | 9,600 | |
| 600 | |||||
| 2,700 | |||||
What actually happened
| Courtney | David | Annie | |||
| 5,100 | 9,600 | 10,800 | |||
| 3,800 | 1,601 | 10,300 | |||
| 1,300 | 7,999 | 21,100 | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 4,501* | 2,401 | 4,499 | 8,401 | 9,599 | |
| 599 | |||||
| 2,699 | |||||
Courtney’s wager is short by at least 100 – I almost gave her a gray grade, but I’m feeling generous. David appears to have miscalculated his lockout wager against Courtney, leaving himself open to a loss against the 599 wager by Annie.
And Annie’s wager is too large, opening things back up to Courtney, but it paid off.
Whew!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| ASIAN ISLANDS |
| PHUKET, THE LARGEST ISLAND OF THIS COUNTRY, HAS REGAINED ITS TOURISM INDUSTRY AFTER A NATURAL DISASTER IN 2004 |
[spoiler]What is Thailand? (2004 refers to the December 26 earthquake/tsunami)[/spoiler]
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Glad to see you back.
I am totally okay with you going with a summary or even skipping a day here and there is nothing interesting is going on. Doing the video and creating a page per game is a lot of work. And you have done a great job of analyzing the various scenarios over the years. So the need for all the detail on a day to day basis is not as pressing as it used to be.
And I totally agree with you on the new single Jeopardy reveal music. I cringed when I heard it. The only good news is that it sounds to me like they did not make major changes to any of the music they use. But then I have a very tin ear. And the new game board graphics, while not being awful, also do not seem to be an improvement over what they used last year. But there is an unwritten rule in TV that you must “improve” this kind of thing every season.