Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Friday, April 29, 2016
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If you’d told me last week that we’d have back-to-back 5x champs, I’d have laughed in your face. But it could happen tonight!
Buzzy takes the lead into Final despite missing all three Daily Doubles:
|
Buzzy Cohen (4x) |
Sanjiv Sarwate |
Tal Nadan |
| 12,800 | 5,800 | 11,400 |
All three players are alive.
| LITERARY CHARACTERS |
I have a laundry list of items on tonight’s game, which you can see in the video. Happy Friday!
Combined analysis
| Buzzy |
Sanjiv |
Tal | |||
| 12,800 | 5,800 | 11,400 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 10,000 | 5,600* | 2,800 | 5,600 | ||
| 1,200 | 1,400 | 2,600 | |||
| 3,000 | |||||
If I’m Sanjiv, I’m going for broke – the chances that Tal wager 201 are just too high.
What actually happened
| Buzzy | Sanjiv | Tal | |||
| 12,800 | 5,800 | 11,400 | |||
| 10,001 | 5,601 | 5,000 | |||
| 22,801 | 11,401 | 6,400 | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 10,001 | 5,800 | 2,801 | 5,599 | ||
| 1,199 | 1,401 | 2,599 | |||
| 2,999 | |||||
Well, there we go – Buzzy punches his ticket to the ToC with his 5 win, for a total of $101,402.
Now he gets three weeks off for the Teachers Tournament and Power Players Week… but I’ll be back here on Monday. See you then!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| LITERARY CHARACTERS |
| IN 1929 LONDON’S GREAT ORMOND STREET CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL WAS GIVEN ALL RIGHTS TO THIS CHARACTER CREATED 27 YEARS EARLIER |
[spoiler]What is Peter Pan?[/spoiler]
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That copyright is also perpetual (in the UK and commonwealth) — one of the few so extended that doesn’t belong to the crown.
Only reason I had thought of Peter Pan was thanks to the 2012 Olympics – they had a children’s lit segment in the opening ceremony where they formed the GOSH logo out of hospital beds. Following that, they read from Peter Pan (if only the beginning.) Lucky thought, mind you…