Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Friday, September 16, 2016
[php snippet=74]
Let’s see how we end our first week of the new season.
Tight one between Christine and Brandon, but Siddharth could play spoiler.
|
Siddharth Hariharan (1x) |
Brandon Barnes |
Christine Schreck |
| 6,600 | 15,400 | 16,800 |
Combined wagers
As I explain in the video, Brandon is in a Shoretegic situation: he can keep Siddharth locked out while covering a zero wager out of Christine…
| Siddharth |
Brandon |
Christine | |||
| 6,600 | 15,400 | 16,800 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 3,800 | 1,400 | 2,200 | 14,000 | ||
| 2,800 | 8,800 | 800 | 1,400 | ||
What actually happened
| Siddharth | Brandon | Christine | |||
| 6,600 | 15,400 | 16,800 | |||
| 66 | 15,400 | 14,001 | |||
| 6,534 | 0 | 2,799 | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 3,799 | 1,401 | 2,199 | 14,001 | ||
| 2,801 | 8,799 | 801 | 1,399 | ||
…except Brandon made the typical second-place error, costing him the match (and a possible big pay-day).
Siddharth is our first repeat champion of Season 33, with a total of $28,135.
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| FILM ADAPTATIONS |
| IN A 2011 slate.com SURVEY OF MOVIE CREDITS, OF THE TOP 25 MOST ADAPTED WRITERS, THIS NOVELIST IS THE ONLY ONE LIVING |
[spoiler]Who is Stephen King?[/spoiler]
[php snippet=74]
It is always a distractor for me when I have a personal connection to a clue, so I feel for Christine who shares a name with a Steven King novel adapted into a 1983 film