Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
[php snippet=74]
I’m trying out a live broadcast for Wednesday’s video – let’s see if it works!
(You can go ahead and bookmark my YouTube Live page, where all future live videos will be broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFinalWager/live)
I’ll try to edit the video down to the usual Final Wager stuff, but I need to wait for it to process, first.
We’ll have our third champion of the season tonight.
|
Elizabeth Troyer (1x) |
Scott Bateman |
Barbara Colberg |
| 1,200 | 17,600 | 14,000 |
Tonight’s Final Jeopardy! category is:
| 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TERMS |
Combined analysis
| Elizabeth |
Scott |
Barbara | |||
| 1,200 | 17,600 | 14,000 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 10,400 | 15,200 | 3,600 | 6,800 | ||
| 3,200 | 3,600 | 400 | |||
What actually happened
| Elizabeth | Scott | Barbara | |||
| 1,200 | 17,600 | 14,000 | |||
| 1,200 | 10,401 | 11,599 | |||
| 0 | 28,001 | 25,599 | |||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 10,401 | 15,199 | 3,601 | 6,799 | ||
| 3,201 | 3,599 | 401 | |||
It’s a shame for Barbara she didn’t wager a lot on that late Daily Double, too – she would probably be coming back tomorrow $35,601 richer.
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TERMS |
| THIS 4-LETTER WORD WAS INTRODUCED IN LONDON IN 1905 BY DR. H.A. DES VOEUX OF THE COAL SMOKE ABATEMENT SOCIETY |
[spoiler]What is ‘smog’? (smoke + fog)[/spoiler]
[php snippet=74]
The audio was out of sync with the video for me. I seem to occasionally run into this. I don’t know what causes it.
Other than the “sync” glitch I would rate your experiment a great success. I particularly liked the parts where you patched in your spread sheet so that we could see your calculations. This made the numbers particularly easy to read. (I’m not saying your had writing is bad. In fact, it’s very good. But the text from the screen is even easier to read.) And using the spread sheet allowed you to run through the scenarios very quickly and easily.
Another vote for the spreadsheet. Great idea!